RE: Strange behavior with scp
HA! That was it! Thanks Jonathan. Sean. -Original Message- From: Jonathan T. Sage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: December 8, 2003 4:02 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Strange behavior with scp Sean Page wrote: > Hi, > > I just upgraded 2 machines to 4.9p1 and one of them is displaying a rather > odd behavior. > When I try to scp a file from said machine, it shows the first line of the > fortune (the one you see if you, say, log into a shell on the machine) on > the client end and then it quits. No error is reported in /var/log/messages > or auth.log and no file is transferred. > Has anyone seen this before? I tried using the same sshd_config as the > working machine to no avail. > Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > Sean. > This is happening because fortune is hijacking the tty. edit your shell init program to not run fortune on non-interactive shells, or remove it all together and scp should work fine again. ~j -- "Yesterday upon the stair I saw a man who wasn't there, he wasn't there again today, oh how i wish he'd go away" Rev. Jonathan T. Sage Lighting / Set Designer Professional Web Design [HTTP://theatre.msu.edu] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [See Headers for Contact Info] ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Strange behavior with scp
On Dec 8, 2003, at 5:09 PM, Sean Page wrote: When I try to scp a file from said machine, it shows the first line of the fortune (the one you see if you, say, log into a shell on the machine) on the client end and then it quits. No error is reported in /var/log/messages or auth.log and no file is transferred. scp requires a "clean login", and that message might be causing the SSH protocol used by scp to break. In particular, something like: "ssh _machine_ true" should run /bin/true and return without generating any additional output. Depending on the shell you use, wrapping the invocation of fortune in something like: if ($?prompt) then # interactive CSH commands... endif ...or: case $- in *i*) # interactive SH commands. esac ...should resolve this issue. -- -Chuck ___ [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
Re: Strange behavior with scp
Sean Page wrote: Hi, I just upgraded 2 machines to 4.9p1 and one of them is displaying a rather odd behavior. When I try to scp a file from said machine, it shows the first line of the fortune (the one you see if you, say, log into a shell on the machine) on the client end and then it quits. No error is reported in /var/log/messages or auth.log and no file is transferred. Has anyone seen this before? I tried using the same sshd_config as the working machine to no avail. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Thanks, Sean. This is happening because fortune is hijacking the tty. edit your shell init program to not run fortune on non-interactive shells, or remove it all together and scp should work fine again. ~j -- "Yesterday upon the stair I saw a man who wasn't there, he wasn't there again today, oh how i wish he'd go away" Rev. Jonathan T. Sage Lighting / Set Designer Professional Web Design [HTTP://theatre.msu.edu] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [See Headers for Contact Info] pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature
