Date: Sun, 4 Jun 2006 10:31:52 -0500 From: Jonathan Horne <jhorne@dfwlp.com> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: freesd boxes refusing scp and sftp? Message-ID: <200606041031.52261.jhorne@dfwlp.com> In-Reply-To: <200606041703.55446.benlutz@datacomm.ch> References: <200606040945.08702.jhorne@dfwlp.com> <200606041703.55446.benlutz@datacomm.ch>
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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
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