ssh percent_expand: NULL replacement

Kendall Shaw queshaw at pacbell.net
Thu Nov 1 12:14:34 PDT 2007


That works. Thanks.

On Nov 1, 2007, at 12:03 PM, Troy Telford wrote:

> You're not the first with this problem.
>
> There is a ticket filed in the MacPorts database:
> http://trac.macports.org/projects/macports/ticket/13046
>
> The following is shamelessly pulled from an earlier posting  
> (courtesy of jptix, whom gives credit to Allan Odgaard.):
>
> The solution to this problem is to use the -i flag when connecting  
> to the
> server:
>
> ssh user at host -i ~/.ssh/id_dsa
>
> You can also make this permanent for all servers by adding this line  
> to your
> ~/.ssh/config:
>
> IdentityFile ~/.ssh/id_dsa
>
> On Nov 1, 2007, at 10:38 AM, Kendall Shaw wrote:
>
>> I've upgraded to leopard on my G4 powerbook, and installed openssh.  
>> If I run ssh from macports I get an error: "percent_expand: NULL  
>> replacement". /usr/bin/ssh still works though. Do any have any idea  
>> what could be causing the error?
>>
>> Incidentally, the reason why I'm installing openssh is that I'm  
>> having a problem where X windows over ssh disconnect if I don't  
>> interact with them within some amount of time. That used to happen  
>> to me and then stopped at some point. I was guessing that it may  
>> have been that I had installed openssh from macports previously  
>> under Tiger and that that had changed that behavior.
>>
>>
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>
> --
> Troy Telford
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>
>



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