[ILUG] wierd ssh thing

[John P . Looney]

On Sat, Feb 24, 2001 at 02:51:19PM -0000, Tarlach mentioned:
> > [netsaint at angel netsaint]$ ssh -l root evilxander df
> The above should work as expected ...

 As in, print nothing ?

> > [netsaint at angel netsaint]$ ssh -l root evilxander 'df 1>&1'
> If this works but the others don't then your stdout
> has been redirected somewhere else, I'd diff your
> ssh config files with the defaults to see what you've
> done differently, especially the /etc/sshrc .ssh/rc
> files which could be doing something weird.
> 
> Also the -t option can be useful in some cases, eg:
> tarlach at freebsd tarlach$ ssh linux bash
> echo test
> test
> tarlach at freebsd tarlach$ ssh -t linux bash
> tarlach at linux tarlach$ echo test
> test
> tarlach at linux tarlach$ exit
> Connection to linux closed.
> tarlach at freebsd tarlach$

 OK, that looks sane. Maybe by default, when you are running a command, it
doesn't allocate a proper terminal. That makes me happy.

> ... also remember Glen says to stop playing :)

 <grin> Hey, it's better than playing Unreal Tournament!

Kate

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