On Sep 7 19:40, Jean-Sebastien Trottier wrote: > Hi Jack, > > On Wed, Sep 07, 2005 at 03:57:59PM -0700, Jack Offerman wrote: > > On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > > > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > > > > > > >I appreciate your help. > > > > > > I guess you could try starting the server with debugging turned on and > > > see what you get from the logs there. Results from that are usually > > > more instructive. > > > > > > It started working again after I changed /etc/passwd. > > When I recreated the file by doing mkpasswd -l, I also > > hand-editted something. That is the last part of the line, > > the login shell. Originally it was bash, and I changed it > > to tcsh. Being a tcsh fan all my life, I've always hated > > when I had to type "tcsh" right after logging in on a ssh > > session because the login shell is bash. When I did > > mkpasswd, I thought it was a perfect time to change > > my login shell to tcsh. And I was happy with the result: > > tcsh running as a login shell. > > > > With tcsh as a login shell, however, sftp didn't work. > > With bash, it is working now. So I take it. > > IIRC, sftp is picky about what the shell will print on its stdout when > launched in non-interactive mode (this can be seen with $?prompt == 0 in > tcsh)... If your .tcshrc or .login files print stuff out, you will most > likely disrupt sftp's "handshaking"... > > try running 'tcsh /bin/true' and see if anything comes up on your > terminal and enclose the culprit pieces of your "dot-files" inside a if > ($?prompt)
Good advice. I'm using tcsh as login shell as well and I have no problems to use it with sftp. The described behaviour is a good indication for noisy rc scripts, as you say. Btw., scp has the same problem and there's nothing the developers can and will do about that. IIRC, we had a similar discussion on this list a few years ago. Corinna -- Corinna Vinschen Please, send mails regarding Cygwin to Cygwin Project Co-Leader mailto:cygwin@cygwin.com Red Hat, Inc. -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
