On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 09:19:35 -0400 "Knight, Dave" wrote: > I am running cygwin virtualbox running a WinDev2206Eval "appliance" (.ova > from microsoft). Everything else I've tested so far in cygwin runs as > expected except scp when the <source> file path is an absolute path, e.g. > /tmp/foo. Scp <source> references to that file using a relative path, e.g. > ../../tmp/foo, work fine. For example: > > $ ls > /tmp/foo # create a /tmp/file > $ ls -l /tmp/foo > $ scp /tmp/foo bcserver:foobar # fails with /tmp/foo "file not found" > $ pwd # (CWD is /Users/dmk) > $ scp ../../tmp/foo bcserver:foobar # this works > $ cd /tmp > $ scp foo bcserver:foobar # this also works > > Please see the attached (script) log file scp.log for the actual results > using these commands. > See also the attached cygcheck.out file. > > Note that: > > 1 - absolute paths work OK for an scp <destination> pathname > > 2 - the "scp /tmp/foo bcserver:foobar" command works OK in win11's > PowerShell > > 3 - the scp target host (bcserver) is a FreeBSD 12 OS running in a > TrueNAS "jail".
You do not seem to install cygwin scp (openssh package), do you? -- Takashi Yano <takashi.y...@nifty.ne.jp> -- Problem reports: https://cygwin.com/problems.html FAQ: https://cygwin.com/faq/ Documentation: https://cygwin.com/docs.html Unsubscribe info: https://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple
