Re: redirect to STDERR problem

[Padraig Brady]

This is related to my patch above. If a process requires user interaction
it should interact with /dev/tty and not stderr in my opinion. Anybody
have any comments on my previous patch "bash uses stderr instead of 
/dev/tty ?"

cheers,
Padraig.

Sven Mascheck wrote:

> Christian Teufel <christian.teufel@zdv.uni-tuebingen.de> wrote:
>
>
> > I wanted to redirect scp errors (file not found, etc.) to STDERR via the
> > 2> command.  Everything worked fine on my system (SuSE Linux 6.3, [...]
> > Then I executed my small proggie on an other system (SuSE Linux 6.1, [...]
> > and oooops, the password prompt was redirected to STDERR.
>
> I guess one scp (aka ssh) writes the password prompt to /dev/tty but the
> other to STDERR, depending on ssh flavour (and version?).
>
> Sven