scp problem

[colin davidson]

Seeing as you appear to be using DHCP (level C private IP  addresses tend to
be a give-away), are you sure that neither DHCP lease has expired and it's
user been reassigned to a different address?

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 7:41 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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