OpenSSH on HP-UX 10.20

I just put OpenSSH (from thewrittenword depot, er, depository) onto our aging 745i workstation running 10.20. It seems to have set everything up properly, including PRNGd, so I rebooted the machine. It's now been sitting there at the "Start OpenSSH daemon" stage of startup for about 15 minutes now. Is this normal, at first I thought it must be taking it's time generating the keys, now I'm not so sure. I'm not hugely experienced with system administration, I just use it to run instrumentation and need ssh to get files on and off the system. Any help, advice would be greatly appreciated.

Stewart
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