Hi, I've been a happy user of fish(shell) for some time. I've recently come across a rather tricky (for me at least) problem that involves the fish shell and i'd like to warn others so they might save the many hours i spent figuring this out. For clarity sake, this matter also involves another "fish", specifically the KDE ioslave "fish://" used to access remote filesystems over ssh.
It seems that using Ubuntu Breezy (latest stable ubuntu) versions of the various software packages involved, if you attempt to connect to an ssh server with the KDE ioslave fish, and that ssh server is running fish(shell) as the shell for the user you'll be connecting as, you can't connect. It fails with a rather useless error message. For extra fun, using Ubuntu Hoary (previous ubuntu version, which i had on another machine), it seems that yes you can connect with that older version of KDE ioslave fish even if the ssh server is running fish(shell) as shell for the user. After many many hours figuring this out (which started with an unexplainable inability to connect with the kde ioslave fish), parsing trough sshd syslog messages (useless), being fooled as to where the problem is because Ubuntu Hoary could connect, to finally find the problem on a piece of software with the same name... well lets just say that the irony of the situation does not escape me. I am unsure of wether this is a fish(shell) bug or if it is simply the KDE ioslave fish assuming something about the remote shell that fish simply does not comply with. Thank you to the developers and good luck! Hugo ------------------------------------------------------- This SF.Net email is sponsored by xPML, a groundbreaking scripting language that extends applications into web and mobile media. Attend the live webcast and join the prime developer group breaking into this new coding territory! http://sel.as-us.falkag.net/sel?cmd=lnk&kid0944&bid$1720&dat1642 _______________________________________________ Fish-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/fish-users
