SCP Problem

[Bill Campbell]

On Thu, Oct 25, 2007, Kurt Wall wrote:
>On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 11:34:22AM +1000, james at jamesmcdonald.id.au wrote:
>> > On Thu, Oct 25, 2007 at 03:37:56PM +1000, James McDonald wrote:
>> >> Kurt Wall wrote:
>> >>> Hola, list,
>> >
>> > [scp broken]
>> >
>> >> Does sftp work?
>> >
>> > Nope.
>> >
>> The reason I ask is that I'm curious if the entire scp / sftp subsytem is
>> not configured/enabled on the remote box?
>
>I'm pretty sure it is because I can ssh to the remote box and then scp
>files to and from it. I just can't use scp when the remote system is on
>the other end of the transaction.

Is it possible that scp is not in the PATH that ssh sees on the
remote system?

Try ``ssh remote which scp'' or perhaps ``ssh remote echo '$PATH' ''

Bill
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