Date: Thu, 19 Jun 2008 17:03:26 +0200 (CEST) From: Oliver Fromme <olli@lurza.secnetix.de> To: freebsd-net@FreeBSD.ORG, tony@crosswinds.net Subject: Re: SCP/SFTP Brain Fart Message-ID: <200806191503.m5JF3QPW084849@lurza.secnetix.de> In-Reply-To: <20080619134338.GA11325@crosswinds.net>
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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
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