Re: Still getting Couldn't set remote shell prompt

2000-04-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
Martin Pool [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Opening connection for mbp@localhost using scp... Waiting 60s for shell or passwd prompt from localhost Initializing remote shell Waiting 30s for remote /bin/sh to come up... Setting up remote shell environment Couldn't set

Re: support connection chains?

2000-04-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mark A. Hershberger) writes: Are you saying that the sed will eliminate all the '/etc/' in the path? Not so. At least when I tried it. Right. It will only eliminate the first one. Hm. Hm It _could_ work. Sorry for the line-noise. If I were to add code to

Re: Shell

2000-04-17 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
"KG" == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KG (1) The FSF doesn't like ssh and thus I'm trying to make KG rcp.el work as well as possible with plain rsh. Now that OpenSSH (http://www.openssh.com/) has been released under a BSD license and can be used without using patented

Re: Shell

2000-04-17 Thread Kai Großjohann
Dale R Worley [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [...] But there is no reason to assume that the "login shell" of the target host/account *is* a shell. What rcp needs to do is more like "ssh hostname /bin/sh". [...] I used to have this, but abandoned it for the following reasons: (1) The FSF

Re: support connection chains?

2000-04-17 Thread Mark A. Hershberger
"KG" == Kai Großjohann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: KG If I were to add code to rcp.el to circumvent `cd', would you KG be willing to test it? Sure! I *need* this code as there is a machine that I own and admin for which I do not have the root password. Sure, I could change it to