when to display a banner

[John Hardt]

On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 1:36 PM, Iain Morgan <imorgan at nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 10:42:28 -0700, John C. Hardt wrote:
>> i want to be able to suppress the banner from the client side
>> (ssh/slogin/scp/sftp) but i don't see a way to do it cleanly.  for
>> example, if there were a -B flag that suppressed the banner that would
>> be alright.  i did try -q, but that suppresses all stderr, which is
>> unacceptable since i do want to see the error output when ssh fails to
>> know why it failed.  another idea would be to have -q suppress the
>> banner and -qq suppress all warning and diagnostic messages but
>> changing the behavior or an existing flag might be a bad idea.
>
> -oLogLevel=error

i tried that, and tried -oLogLevel=fatal, and the banner still displays.
        -john