when to display a banner

Iain Morgan imorgan at nas.nasa.gov
Sat Feb 14 07:36:57 EST 2009


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

-- 
Iain Morgan


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