Doh! Of course! I don't really think it is Jenkins' fault the earlier ssh clients ate the first protocol messages.
-- Sami Rich Pixley <rich.pix...@palm.com> kirjoitti 30.7.2012 kello 21.40: > I've gotten this working. The clue for me was here: > http://jenkins.361315.n4.nabble.com/Doing-something-else-before-invoking-slave-jar-in-slave-launch-script-td4634608.html > > There appears to be a bug in the jenkins protocol but adding -n to the > earlier ssh commands in my runslave.sh script appears to work around the bug. > > --rich