SSH with exit status 1 even though logging is working fine

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Issue

  • In only one system, it returns 1 instead of for ssh exit
$ ssh problem_node  exit > /dev/null; echo $?
1

$ ssh normal_node  exit > /dev/null; echo $?
0

Environment

  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.7

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