[Bash-completion-devel] Bug#525293: workaround

[Dima Kogan]

I'm not sure exactly why, but, _known_hosts is trying to execute
/dev/null. As a workaround you can apply the patch below. This fixes
only the symptoms so the bug should remain open.

--- /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh.old	2009-05-02 02:12:09.000000000 -0700
+++ /etc/bash_completion.d/ssh	2009-05-02 02:26:20.000000000 -0700
@@ -102,7 +102,7 @@
 		shift
 	done
 
-	[[ "$cur" == */* ]] || _known_hosts -c -a "$optconfigfile"
+	[[ "$cur" == */* ]] || _known_hosts -c -a "$optconfigfile" 2> /dev/null
 
 	# This approach is used instead of _filedir to get a space appended
 	# after local file/dir completions, and $nospace retained for others.