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Subject: Re: freesd boxes refusing scp and sftp?
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On Sunday 04 June 2006 10:03, Benjamin Lutz wrote:
> On Sunday 04 June 2006 16:45, Jonathan Horne wrote:
> > my freebsd boxes are refusing connections (or erroring them out, im not
> > sure which it is at this time).  when i try to scp a file or make a sftp
> > connection, this is what i get:
> >
> > [jhorne@zeus ~]$ sftp tyche
> > Connecting to tyche...
> > Password:
> > Received message too long 538976288
> > [jhorne@zeus ~]$
> >
> > i get something similar (yet equally aggravating!) when i scp too.  can
> > someone point me in the right direction here?
>
> For scp and sftp to work, the machine must not print anything at login
> time. So if you, say, have your machine print a fortune cookie at login,
> you need to disable that.
>
> Cheers
> Benjamin

ohhhhhhhhhhh.  well that explains it... i was having my .bashrc give me a 
'cal' upon login.  i guess ill take that off :)

thanks!
jonathan