Re: Strange behavior with scp

[Jonathan T. Sage]

Sean Page wrote:

Hi,

I just upgraded 2 machines to 4.9p1 and one of them is displaying a rather
odd behavior.
When I try to scp a file from said machine, it shows the first line of the
fortune (the one you see if you, say, log into a shell on the machine) on
the client end and then it quits. No error is reported in /var/log/messages
or auth.log and no file is transferred.
Has anyone seen this before? I tried using the same sshd_config as the
working machine to no avail.
Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Sean.

This is happening because fortune is hijacking the tty. edit your shell init program to not run fortune on non-interactive shells, or remove it all together and scp should work fine again.

~j

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