On Thu, Sep 24, 2015 at 9:13 AM, isdtor <isdtor at gmail.com> wrote: > >> The errors you posted were from the client. Assuming you can ssh into >> the remote machine without a problem, do you see error messages there >> on the server? > > Thanks, Akemi, you have hit the nail on the head! > > The spurious error message was caused by a statement in .cshrc that created output, a stray unescaped exclamation mark in an alias definition. And that with me preaching to my users for years about cleaning up their init files ... Glad to hear you've identified the cause. By the way I love that "stray unescaped exclamation mark in an alias definition" ;-) Akemi