[boost] Re: Review results: Optional library

From: Fernando Cacciola (fcacciola_at_[hidden])
Date: 2003-01-21 20:54:30

[Just got here at home from the office... sorry for the delay]

"David B. Held" <dheld_at_[hidden]> escribió en el mensaje
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> "David Abrahams" <dave_at_[hidden]> wrote in message
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> > [...]
> > Don't know anything about this plink stuff.  What's the point?
>
> It's an ssh client for use in automation.  It doesn't have the interactive
> output that a normal ssh client would have.
>
OK. So it is just like putty.exe but without console output?

>
> > > [...]
> > > after a few seconds I'm stuck there: there is no output but plink.exe
> > > keeps running...
>
> When you first log into a new machine, it sends some authentication
> bytes to validate that it is who it says it is.  ssh needs to know that
you
> accept this string.  Plink won't show you this message, so you should
> log into the server manually, using putty, so that you can accept the
> string.  That may or may not be the problem.
>
Aha... So it stoped at some prompt which I didn't see perhaps...

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