shell startup scripts and possible influence in scp/sftp/socks tests

  3 to 9. Any test numbers starting with ! are disabled, as are any test

  numbers found in the file data/DISABLED (one per line).

shell startup scripts:

  Tests which use the ssh test server, SCP/SFTP/SOCKS tests, might get badly

  influenced by the output of system wide or user specific shell startup scripts,

  .bashrc, .profile, /etc/csh.cshrc, .login, /etc/bashrc, etc. which output text

  messages or escape sequences on user login.  When this shell startup messages

  or escape sequences are output they might corrupt the expected stream of data

  which flows to the sftp-server or from the ssh client which can result in bad

  test behaviour or even prevent the test server from running.

  If the test suite ssh or sftp server fails to start up and logs the message

  'Received message too long' then you are certainly suffering the unwanted

  output of a shell startup script.  Locate, cleanup or adjust the shell script.

Memory:

  The test script will check that all allocated memory is freed properly IF

  curl has been built with the CURLDEBUG define set. The script will