scp and the use of fortune in /etc/profile

[Damien Miller]

On Fri, 18 Aug 2000, me wrote:

> I tracked down a problem related to running fortune at the start of
> every shell instance and scp. I imagine the problem would be the same
> with any utility automatically started upon login that prints to the
> screen. I am not sure if this intentional, a bug or just an annoyance
> that one should not run such utilities at login. Maybe one for the faq
> eh, so no one respends the time I just did tracking it down.
>
> openssh-2.1.1p3-3mdk
 
Such programs should only be run for interactive shells.

-d


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