scp + .bashrc buglet

[insecure at mail.od.ua]

On Saturday 15 February 2003 11:44, Darren Tucker wrote:
> "insecure at mail.od.ua" wrote:
> > Just a quick note: this is my .bashrc:
> >
> > # Executed by non-login interactive shell
> > #
> > # scp go wild when it see this
> > #echo "<*> Executing ~/.bashrc from '$0'. Command line: '$*'"
> > #ps -H e
> > #echo "<*> Finished ~/.bashrc"
>
> So don't do that, then.
>
> > Line 3 was added and subsequent lines commented out.
> > Now scp works. Looks like a little scp bug for me.
>
> Your non-interactive shell should not generate extraneous output as scp
> has no way of knowing how much of the output to ignore.  You will also
> see similar problems with other software that uses ssh as a transport
> (eg rsync, cvs).
>
> This is not a bug, see http://www.openssh.com/faq.html#2.9

Thanks for the info. Sorry for the noise...
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vda