scp problem

[Rajinder Yadav]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 8:41 AM, bob 295<icanprogram-sKcZck+fQKg at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> I've been trying to chase down why SCP has suddenly refused to work between my
> two MEPIS Linux boxes here.
>
> I can ssh from either direction.
>
> When I try something like
>
> scp myfile 192.168.1.101:/tmp
>
> it prompts me for the password and then echos the line I put at the bottom of
> my .bashrc on the remote box (192.168.1.101) and returns without any copy
> happening.
>
> echo $?
>
> returns a 1 which I believe is an error.
>
> If I repeat the command with the -v option I can't see any obvious error,
> just that no copy actually happens.    In fact with the -v option on the last
> debug line says return code 0 ... which appears to contradict $?.    The
> debug stuff says that the command it is sending is "scp -v -t /tmp" ... that
> also looks curious to me.
>
> Thanks in advance for your help.
>
> bob
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Just curious if you tried copying using rsycn would you get the same
result? Possibly the answer to this might shed some light for other to
help you out with scp.

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Kind Regards,
Rajinder Yadav
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