Tony Holmes wrote: > > It seems that your shell profile executes stty(1) even > > for non-interactive shells. That is wrong. Make sure > > that you shell profiles and rc files do not call stty > > or produce any output for non-interactive sessions. > > Such output confuses scp. > > So obvious! > > The offender: > > .login > > stty erase ^H > > This was a carry over from ages ago when my chosen terminal s/w didn't > support the backspace mapping.
Ah, so you use csh or tcsh. The execution of profiles is somewhat broken in (t)csh, there is no separation between interactive and non-interactive shells. You can keep the stty statement in your .login file if you put it int oa conditional, like this: if ($?prompt) then stty erase ^H endif That works because the variable $prompt is unset for non- interactive (t)csh sessions. Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing b. M. Handelsregister: Registergericht Muenchen, HRA 74606, Geschäftsfuehrung: secnetix Verwaltungsgesellsch. mbH, Handelsregister: Registergericht Mün- chen, HRB 125758, Geschäftsführer: Maik Bachmann, Olaf Erb, Ralf Gebhart FreeBSD-Dienstleistungen, -Produkte und mehr: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd "The last good thing written in C was Franz Schubert's Symphony number 9." -- Erwin Dieterich _______________________________________________ freebsd-net@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-net To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"