[TAG] An ssh puzzle

[Ben Okopnik]

On Fri, Nov 12, 2010 at 03:57:20PM +0000, Neil Youngman wrote:
> 
> The problem seems to be related in some way to the handling of standard error, 
> but I can't think of anything that would cause it to behave like that. I have 
> a workaround that gets me the information I need, but I would like to resolve 
> the underlying problem. Do any of the gang have any idea what could cause 
> this sort of behaviour?

I agree with you - it seems to be some kind of STDOUT/STDERR bug. The
two questions that would pop up for me would be 1) is the shell being
used the same one as on the other hosts, and 2) has someone managed to
crawl into my system and replace the shell with something just a little
different? Little bits of misbehavior like that can be indicative.


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