Re: parsing out banners

[Kai Großjohann]

"Richard A Ryan" <address@hidden> writes:

> I hope this isn't the wrong place to be sending this, but I would
> like to suggest that tramp have the capability of parsing out
> banners.  Where I work, and I've been told elsewhere as well, there
> are banners flashed to screen for every connection made even when
> connecting with scp, rcp, rsh, ssh, and so on.  This confuses TRAMP.
> Maybe TRAMP could have some variable to specify a program that could
> be used to filter these things rather than having the filtering
> built into TRAMP.

I'm not sure I understand what is happening, but I think that Tramp
already tries to deal with it.  Could you provide more information,
please?  The Tramp version would be interesting, as would be the
*debug tramp/foo* buffer.  You get this buffer with (setq
tramp-debug-buffer t).  If you type M-x tramp-bug RET you will see
more instructions that might be useful.

When connecting with ssh or rsh, Tramp expects a message of the day
and tries to skip it.  (But Tramp can get confused if something in the
motd looks like a shell prompt.)

When connecting with scp or rcp, Tramp ignores all output from the
remote end, I think.

kai
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