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Date: Sat, 9 Sep 2000 02:44:46 -0700
To: cjclark@alum.mit.edu
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Subject: ANSWER: Re: ssh problem
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Reply-To: "Michael S . Fischer" <michael@dynamine.net>
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In-Reply-To: <20000907233258.J69158@149.211.6.64.reflexcom.com>; from cjclark@reflexnet.net on Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:32:58PM -0700
From: michael@dynamine.net (Michael S. Fischer)
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On Thu, Sep 07, 2000 at 11:32:58PM -0700, Crist J . Clark wrote:

> > While I can log in to my FreeBSD (-STABLE as of this AM) box via ssh
> > (I'm using RSA authentication), I cannot run any commands on the ssh
> > command line (e.g. 'ssh phoenix ls') and get a response.  scp does not
> > appear to work either to this particular host.
> 
> Can you try running the client as,
> 
>   $ ssh -v <host> ls
> 
> And the daemon on the server as,
> 
>   # sshd -d
> 
> To get the debug output?

I finally figured out what the problem was.  After debugging my shell
init scripts I found the following code which caused the session to
hang in non-interactive mode:


# Check for the presence of 'less'.  bash returns 127 on `command not
# found' errors.
less >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -eq 127 ]; then unset -v HAVE_LESS; else HAVE_LESS=yes; fi


Changing this to

# Check for the presence of 'less'.
which less >/dev/null 2>&1
if [ $? -ne 0 ]; then unset -v HAVE_LESS; else HAVE_LESS=yes; fi

Seems to have fixed the problem.

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