From: Wiles, Dale L. (NE) <dale.wi...@gd-ais.com> Date: Wed, Oct 13, 2010 at 11:44:26AM -0400 > I updated cygwin yesterday (10/12/10) and rebooted my Windows XP (SP3) box. > Now, when I use scp from a Red Hat 5.5 box to my Windows box, scp quietly > fails. > > If I run (from Red Hat) "scp un...@windowsbox:file .", I'm prompted for my > password. I type it in and then, a moment later, scp exits. No data gets > transferred and there is no error messages. If I type in a garbage file > name, I get the same results. There is no error message. > > If I run "sftp un...@windowsbox:file ." I'm prompted for my password and the > file transfers normally. Unfortunately I need a recursive copy. > > I can also ssh into my windows box with no problem. > > /var/log/sshd.log exists, but is empty. > I had something like this (ssh OK, scp fails silently) a few years ago, and it was related to this:
The OpenSSH FAQ has something to that affect in section 2.9 http://www.openssh.com/faq.html <snip> 2.9 - sftp/scp fails at connection, but ssh is OK. sftp and/or scp may fail at connection time if you have shell initialization (.profile, .bashrc, .cshrc, etc) which produces output for non-interactive sessions. This output confuses the sftp/scp client. You can verify if your shell is doing this by executing: ssh yourhost /usr/bin/true If the above command produces any output, then you need to modify your shell initialization. <snip> which I found on google using 'scp fails silently .bashrc' - there's lots more info there. Hope this helps, Jurriaan -- Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
