RE: Virus Found

[Troy Noble <troy dot noble at channelpoint dot com>]

Hah!  That's good.

And I also saw Chuck's note about scp working... so maybe it's a non-issue.

This was many years ago... these rcp/rsh clients were from circa
Sun 3.x days, Apollo Domain OS 10.x, and dare I say it... Xenix on 286's.

Thought I'd bring it up, since it's one of the few things I can
remember from that long ago.   I'm just happy when a long-term memory
cell kicks in occasionally ;->

Troy

-----Original Message-----
From: Christopher Faylor [mailto:cgf@redhat.com]
Sent: Monday, September 10, 2001 4:21 PM
To: cygwin@cygwin.com
Subject: Re: Virus Found


On Mon, Sep 10, 2001 at 04:16:05PM -0600, 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.

That's ok.  We'll just add that as a tip:

"rcp getting screwed up?  Check for fortune output!"

cgf

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