Subject: Re: 23.1; shadowfile always fails

From: Chong Yidong <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 23:47:33 -0400

> Shadowfile is always failing because it is somehow always trying to
> to run ssh scp -l wfp5p  -q -e none, which is wrong since there is no
> hostname given.  I get the same error if I start emacs with -q, so it
> doesn't appear to be anything in my startup files. 

Please, start at the beginning.  Can you give us a step-by-step recipe
for reproducing this bug, starting from emacs -q?