ssh & pipe

[Philip Spencer]

Sorry, I forgot to include the -n flag in my examples.

Previous pipe problems in openssh were indeed cured by adding -n as
you suggest, but this current problem is occurring even with the -n option.

Thanks for the reminder, though. The -n was in the original script that
was failing, but I forgot it when generating the test-case examples.

But alas, even with the -n the test-case examples still fail. :(

- Philip.

On Fri, 15 Jun 2001, John Dunlap wrote:

> > We recently tried upgrading openssh from 2.5.2p2 to 2.9p1
> > and discovered that it no longer worked to feed the output from a remote
> > command into a pipe, unless the output was short and the pipe was very
> > fast at processing its input.
>
> > Example 1:    ssh remote_machine some_command | less
>
> I cured this by adding -n to the ssh options:
>
> ssh -n remote_machine some_command | less
>
> --
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