sftp connection problem

[Ken]

I'm sorry if I'm missing something obvious here, but I cannot connect
to a particular server via sftp. When I do sftp there, I get a login
prompt, then the connection closes once I put in my password. If I
telnet to port 22 there, I get:

SSH-1.99-OpenSSH_3.1p1

Anyone know if there's a simple answer as to why I cannot connect?

Thanks.

-Ken

[Ken]

Btw, if I run sftp -v, here's the output once I put in my password:

debug1: Authentication succeeded (password).
debug1: channel 0: new [client-session]
debug1: Entering interactive session.
debug1: Sending subsystem: sftp
debug1: client_input_channel_req: channel 0 rtype exit-status reply 0
debug1: channel 0: free: client-session, nchannels 1
debug1: fd 0 clearing O_NONBLOCK
debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 0.2 seconds
debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.0
debug1: Exit status 0
Connection closed

[Ken]

Ack, I just figured something out. I found at openssh.org:

sftp and/or scp may fail at connection time if you have shell
initialization (.profile, .bashrc, .cshrc, etc) which produces output
for non-interactive sessions. This output confuses the sftp/scp
client. You can verify if your shell is doing this by executing:

ssh yourhost /usr/bin/true

If the above command produces any output, then you need to modify your
shell initialization.

I tried that and got:

jailshell: /usr/bin/true: No such file or directory

I forgot about that. To the hosting company's credit, they gave me a
shell, though no one else gets one. I wonder if there's a simple way
around this. Anyone?

Thanks.

-Ken

[Ken]

Ken <nn...@hellrot.org> wrote:
> jailshell: /usr/bin/true: No such file or directory

Woops. Sorry for all the replies to myself, but if I try:

sh unix.vi /bin/true

I get no output at all, which I take as a good thing. But I still
cannot sftp there.

Thanks for any info.

-Ken

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In article <bscdnb$o7d$1...@reader2.panix.com>, Ken wrote:

>I get no output at all, which I take as a good thing. But I still
>cannot sftp there.

I can't see a lot of point in sftp. Does scp work on your stuff ?

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[Ken]

all mail refused <el...@notatla.org.uk> wrote:
> In article <bscdnb$o7d$1...@reader2.panix.com>, Ken wrote:

> >I get no output at all, which I take as a good thing. But I still
> >cannot sftp there.

> I can't see a lot of point in sftp. Does scp work on your stuff ?

I haven't tried it. I like to have my ftp shell to be able then to
look at files remotely and locally and such.

-Ken