Re: scp and sftp issues

From: all mail refused (elvis_at_notatla.org.uk)
Date: 03/07/04


Date: 7 Mar 2004 00:54:44 GMT

In article <20040307014019.64663919.funky@knobotech.com>, funky wrote:

> Hi, i would like to know what is happening when i try to
> scp or sftp with a certain user.

>funky@skunk funky $ sftp anthrax
>Connecting to anthrax...
>funky@anthrax's password:
>Received message too long 458961200

Probably a startup file such as .cshrc is producing output ESC,[,1,0.
Move all the startup files to a temp directory and retry.
I'm surprised if it also affects scp.

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