[ale] SCP problem

Michael D. Hirsch mhirsch at nubridges.com
Fri Feb 6 15:04:54 EST 2004


On Thursday 05 February 2004 07:45 pm, David Corbin wrote:
> I have a RedHat Linux system that I can ssh to.  However, I'm having
> problems with scp.  I'm trying to scp from a Windows box using cygwin,
> however, no file is copied.  scp returns a "1" (I think).  There are no
> errors display.  When I run with -v -v, I still see nothing that looks
> terribly helpful, other than this confirmation that it's not doing
> anything: <snip>
> debug1: Transferred: stdin 0, stdout 0, stderr 0 bytes in 0.2 seconds
> debug1: Bytes per second: stdin 0.0, stdout 0.0, stderr 0.0
>
>
> If I try to copy a file FROM the Linux box, scp hangs
> <snip>
> debug2: channel 0: write failed
> debug2: channel 0: close_write
> debug2: channel 0: output open -> closed
> Sending file modes: C0600 12543 .bash_history
> debug2: channel 0: written 46 to efd 6

First, make sure that and firewall is turned off.

Second, does /var/log/secure show anything?

Do you have a second Linux box you can test with first?  I expect that would 
be easier to debug.

--Michael



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