SCP fails while ssh works...

Garance A Drosihn drosih at rpi.edu
Mon Feb 9 14:04:53 PST 2004


At 1:08 PM -0800 2/9/04, twig les wrote:
>Hey all, I have to identical boxes running 4.6 and all of a
>sudden one stopped taking SCP even though it still takes ssh
>connections.

This may not help you at all, but every time I've had a problem
where scp fails and ssh works, it has been because the userid on
the remote side printed out some extra text while it was logging
in.  Something like 'Welcome to ....' in the .bashrc, for instance.

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Garance Alistair Drosehn            =   gad at gilead.netel.rpi.edu
Senior Systems Programmer           or  gad at freebsd.org
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute    or  drosih at rpi.edu


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