Date: Mon, 8 Dec 2003 16:08:22 -0700 From: Sean Page <Sean.Page@epsb.ca> To: "'questions@freebsd.org'" <questions@freebsd.org> Subject: RE: Strange behavior with scp Message-ID: <DF09779544EFD511A17D0002A587F9D306C9BFD9@EXCHANGE07>
next in thread | raw e-mail | index | archive | help
HA! That was it! Thanks Jonathan. Sean. -----Original Message----- From: Jonathan T. Sage [mailto:sagejona@theatre.msu.edu] Sent: December 8, 2003 4:02 PM To: 'questions@freebsd.org' 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] [sagejona@theatre.msu.edu] [See Headers for Contact Info]
Want to link to this message? Use this URL: <https://mail-archive.FreeBSD.org/cgi/mid.cgi?DF09779544EFD511A17D0002A587F9D306C9BFD9>