title: Running OpenSSH in an Alpine Docker Container
body: <p>I've <a href="https://stackoverflow.com/questions/35689976/installing-openssh-on-the-alpine-docker-container">installed OpenSSH</a> and now I wish to run it as described in the <a href="http://wiki.alpinelinux.org/wiki/Setting_up_a_ssh-server" rel="noreferrer">documentation</a> by running <code>/etc/init.d/sshd start</code>.  However it does not start:</p>
  
  <pre><code> / # /etc/init.d/sshd start
   /bin/ash: /etc/init.d/sshd: not found
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Thoughts?</p>
  
  <p>P.S. </p>
  
  <pre><code>/ # ls -la /etc/init.d/sshd 
  -rwxr-xr-x    1 root     root          2622 Jan 14 20:48 /etc/init.d/sshd
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Contents of /etc/init.d/sshd:</p>
  
  <pre><code>    #!/sbin/openrc-run
      # Copyright 1999-2015 Gentoo Foundation
      # Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
      # $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-misc/openssh/files/sshd.rc6.4,v 1.5 2015/05/04 02:56:25 vapier Exp $
  
      description="OpenBSD Secure Shell server"
      description_checkconfig="Verify configuration file"
      description_reload="Reload configuration"
  
      extra_commands="checkconfig"
      extra_started_commands="reload"
  
      : ${SSHD_CONFDIR:=/etc/ssh}
      : ${SSHD_CONFIG:=${SSHD_CONFDIR}/sshd_config}
      : ${SSHD_PIDFILE:=/var/run/${SVCNAME}.pid}
      : ${SSHD_BINARY:=/usr/sbin/sshd}
  
      depend() {
          use logger dns
          if [ "${rc_need+set}" = "set" ] ; then
              : # Do nothing, the user has explicitly set rc_need
          else
              local x warn_addr
              for x in $(awk '/^ListenAddress/{ print $2 }' "$SSHD_CONFIG" 2&gt;/dev/null) ; do
                  case "${x}" in
                      0.0.0.0|0.0.0.0:*) ;;
                      ::|\[::\]*) ;;
                      *) warn_addr="${warn_addr} ${x}" ;;
                  esac
              done
              if [ -n "${warn_addr}" ] ; then
                  need net
                  ewarn "You are binding an interface in ListenAddress statement in your sshd_config!"
                  ewarn "You must add rc_need=\"net.FOO\" to your /etc/conf.d/sshd"
                  ewarn "where FOO is the interface(s) providing the following address(es):"
                  ewarn "${warn_addr}"
              fi
          fi
      }
  
      checkconfig() {
          if [ ! -d /var/empty ] ; then
              mkdir -p /var/empty || return 1
          fi
  
          if [ ! -e "${SSHD_CONFIG}" ] ; then
              eerror "You need an ${SSHD_CONFIG} file to run sshd"
              eerror "There is a sample file in /usr/share/doc/openssh"
              return 1
          fi
  
          if ! yesno "${SSHD_DISABLE_KEYGEN}"; then
              ssh-keygen -A || return 1
          fi
  
          [ "${SSHD_PIDFILE}" != "/var/run/sshd.pid" ] \
              &amp;&amp; SSHD_OPTS="${SSHD_OPTS} -o PidFile=${SSHD_PIDFILE}"
          [ "${SSHD_CONFIG}" != "/etc/ssh/sshd_config" ] \
              &amp;&amp; SSHD_OPTS="${SSHD_OPTS} -f ${SSHD_CONFIG}"
  
          "${SSHD_BINARY}" -t ${SSHD_OPTS} || return 1
      }
  
      start() {
          checkconfig || return 1
  
          ebegin "Starting ${SVCNAME}"
          start-stop-daemon --start --exec "${SSHD_BINARY}" \
              --pidfile "${SSHD_PIDFILE}" \
              -- ${SSHD_OPTS}
          eend $?
      }
  
      stop() {
          if [ "${RC_CMD}" = "restart" ] ; then
              checkconfig || return 1
          fi
  
          ebegin "Stopping ${SVCNAME}"
          start-stop-daemon --stop --exec "${SSHD_BINARY}" \
              --pidfile "${SSHD_PIDFILE}" --quiet
          eend $?
  
          if [ "$RC_RUNLEVEL" = "shutdown" ]; then
              _sshd_pids=$(pgrep "${SSHD_BINARY##*/}")
              if [ -n "$_sshd_pids" ]; then
                  ebegin "Shutting down ssh connections"
                  kill -TERM $_sshd_pids &gt;/dev/null 2&gt;&amp;1
                  eend 0
              fi
          fi
      }
  
      reload() {
          checkconfig || return 1
          ebegin "Reloading ${SVCNAME}"
          start-stop-daemon --signal HUP \
              --exec "${SSHD_BINARY}" --pidfile "${SSHD_PIDFILE}"
          eend $?
      }
  </code></pre>