scp problem

[Tyler Aviss]

On Sat, Jul 25, 2009 at 1:03 PM, colin davidson<colinpdavidson-Re5JQEeQqe8AvxtiuMwx3w at public.gmane.org> wrote:
> 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?
>
Eh? Why would a level-C address be any less likely to be assigned by a
static interfaces entry than DHCP? I've got both a block of DHCP
entries and statics on my networks.


> 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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