On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Darren Reed wrote:
>Sometimes we're just too clever for ourselves...
>
>This problem was brought about by eval'ing the saved output
>of ssh-agent in .cshrc rather than .login which caused output
>to be sent back to scp that it wasn't expecting, thus triggering
>an error and abort.
hi Darren, that's correct, a common problem with printing anything
on stdout from profiles and sometimes quite hard to solve since it's not
immediately clear that one is directly messing up with SCP protocol.
it's also explained here:
http://blogs.sun.com/janp/entry/how_the_scp_protocol_works
(Running scp with talkative shell profiles on the remote side?)
J.
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Jan Pechanec
