sftp a big file

Last night I tried to sftp a really big file and it failed at about 90 percent done. I saw an error message that's somewhat similar to "Message received too big". It is my daily practice to download big files using sftp and I have never seen that before. The size is usally about 500MB to 1GB and I

sftp "connection closed"

When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? Both were working before. But I realized that I needed to fix /etc/passwd and /etc/group for another reason, so I did mkpasswd and mkgroup. Then did ssh-host-config again. With that done, now I am happy to see the ssh user fina

Re: sftp "connection closed"

On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, you wrote: > >When "ssh host" works but "sftp host" doesn't, where should I look? > > > >I appreciate your help. > > I guess you could try starting the server with debugging turned on and > see what you get from the logs ther

Re: sftp "connection closed"

On 9/7/05, Igor Pechtchanski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, 7 Sep 2005, Jack Offerman wrote: > > > On 9/7/05, Larry Hall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > <http://cygwin.com/acronyms/#PCYMTNQREAIYR>. Thanks. > > > > At 12:33 PM 9/7/2005, y