Patch to fix the 255 status code problem

Darren Tucker dtucker at zip.com.au
Thu Feb 1 07:06:03 EST 2007


On Wed, Jan 31, 2007 at 04:48:39PM -0000, tim.mann at bt.com wrote:
> I'm having problems with  a dataguard deployment using Oracle 8.1.7.4. I
> found an article on Metalink which seem to explain the problem I was
> having. It states that with openssh (on Solaris) it returns status code
> 255 for a successful execution and this is interpreted by dataguard as a
> connection failure. 
> 
> When I run ssh on the command line everything is fine.

What's the server at the other end?  I vaguely recall a problem something
like that when the server is SunSSH.

Can you run ssh with -vvv and redirect stderr to a file?  Maybe with
a wrapper script?

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