Date: 09 Feb 2004 20:35:56 -0500 From: Lowell Gilbert <freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org> To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SCP fails while ssh works... Message-ID: <44d68nogw3.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> In-Reply-To: <p06020406bc4db3f44df8@[128.113.24.47]> References: <20040209210854.34037.qmail@web60406.mail.yahoo.com> <p06020406bc4db3f44df8@[128.113.24.47]>
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Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> writes:
> 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.
The solution to that type of problem is to have the text be printed
only on interactive sessions.
e.g.:
if tty -s; then
echo 'executing .bashrc'
fi
I thought once defined shell functions to do that for me, but they
aren't in my startup files now...
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