ssh "-bash: shells.: command not found"

[Peter Garrett]

When I ssh to one of the machines on my small home network, each time I get the error:

Last login: Thu Oct 13 16:39:57 2005 from prospero
-bash: shells.: command not found
peter at mmx:~$ 

I'm using ssh2 with public key authorisation. ( ssh-keygen -t dsa ).

This isn't a practical problem really, since I can continue (as you see, I'm logged in) - but I'm curious as to where this "error message" is coming from. I looked in /etc/ssh/sshd_config for clues without success. I also searched man pages for login and sshd, and looked for likely suspects in the /etc/ dir.

The machine that spits out the message is an old P200 mmx 64MB RAM on which I'm running hoary (done from a bare bones "server" install, and adding fluxbox plus other lightweight apps...)

This P200 previously ran Debian Woody installed in a similar manner - woody did not exhibit this odd behaviour, so I'm thinking I might have missed a package or two somewhere ? Googling the error message in various ways hasn't produced anything relevant so far.

Can anyone clarify what lack might be producing this message, immediately after an ssh login to the older machine?

Google searches on the literal string in quotes produced only 2 hits, both in languages I can't read ;-)

Any config files or other info that I can supply, or is this a well-known phenomenon with a simple explanation I'm missing?

Peter


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