sFTP on 7.0-RELEASE no worky

[The MadDaemon]

On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 3:30 PM, Dan Nelson <dnelson at allantgroup.com> wrote:
> In the last episode (Mar 26), The MadDaemon said:
>  > I have a 7.0-RELEASE box that I setup a few weeks ago for testing,
>  > and I just now tried to sftp into it and get the following:
>  >
>  > kevin at darkhorse [~]$ sftp 172.20.30.12
>  > Connecting to 172.20.30.12...
>  >
>  > (banner snipped)
>  >
>  > Password:
>  > Received message too long 173305700
>  > kevin at darkhorse [~]$
>
>  173305700 = 0x0A546F64 = "\nTod"
>
>  Make sure you don't have any commands in your shell's startup scripts
>  that might print anything if the incoming session isn't interactive.
>
>  http://www.snailbook.com/faq/sftp-corruption.auto.html
>
>  --
>         Dan Nelson
>         dnelson at allantgroup.com
>

d'oh!  I had fortunes enabled, which was the culprit.  Thanks for the
link/answer, Dan.