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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2001 18:24:42 -0400
From: Charles Wilson <cwilson@ece.gatech.edu>
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To: Troy Noble <troy.noble@channelpoint.com>
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Troy Noble wrote:

>>How about a port of 'fortune' with a custom 'tips' database?  Put it in 
>>the default /etc/profile...
>>
> 
>>--Chuck
>>
> 
> I do like that idea, however...
> 
> I know some versions of Unix rcp client used to get confused if
> the shell startup scripts (like ~/.profile or /etc/profile)
> on the target machine emit any output to stdout.
> 
> Don't know if scp suffers from the same malady, but making the
> /etc/profile spit out information to stdout might obviate the
> need for users of scp, rcp, rsh to go remove the fortune invocation
> from /etc/profile.
> 
> introducing yet another FAQ ;->
> 
> Just my $0.02, a throwback from my former Unix admin days.


No, the machines I use at work spit stuff out to stdout, and I use scp 
all the time:


scp majors.htm cwilson@xxxx:
cwilson@xxxx's password:
stty: : Invalid argument
stty: : Invalid argument
scp: warning: Executing scp1 compatibility.
majors.htm           100% |*****************************|   293 KB    00:04

That stty: warning is coming from the .cshrc file on the remote machine, 
but it doesn't interfere with the file transfer.

--Chuck


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