sshd keeps complaining

May 24 08:19:03 info sshd[25391]: error: Could not load host key: /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key

In /etc/ssh/sshd_config I have

HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_rsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ecdsa_key
HostKey /etc/ssh/ssh_host_ed25519_key

and no entry for /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key.
So, why is it hunting for /etc/ssh/ssh_host_key?
And how can I get rid of this error?

openssh-8.0p1

Mageia 7

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William Unruh <[email protected]> writes:

May 24 08:19:03 info sshd[25391]: error: Could not load host key: >/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key

[...]

openssh-8.0p1

Mageia 7

Isn't ssh_host_key the conventional name for the host key for the
(obsolete, insecure) SSH protocol version 1?

Stock OpenSSH 8.0 doesn't include SSH-1 support (server support was
removed in 7.4p1). I don't know whether Mageia has some kind of separate packaging of the SSH-1 server, perhaps with its own config files, a bit
like Debian's (client-only) openssh-ssh1? Or is that pid 25391
definitely your OpenSSH 8.0 server?

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On 2019-05-26, Jacob Nevins <[email protected]> wrote:

William Unruh <[email protected]> writes:

May 24 08:19:03 info sshd[25391]: error: Could not load host key: >>/etc/ssh/ssh_host_key

[...]

openssh-8.0p1

Mageia 7

Isn't ssh_host_key the conventional name for the host key for the
(obsolete, insecure) SSH protocol version 1?

Stock OpenSSH 8.0 doesn't include SSH-1 support (server support was
removed in 7.4p1). I don't know whether Mageia has some kind of separate packaging of the SSH-1 server, perhaps with its own config files, a bit
like Debian's (client-only) openssh-ssh1? Or is that pid 25391
definitely your OpenSSH 8.0 server?

The only ssh I have installed is openssh-8.0p1-2wgu.mga7
(the 2wgu was for me adding an extra logging for unsuccessful ssh
attempts)
So, yes, that is the ssh 8 sshd

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