bash: scp: command not found

[SysProg - Nathan Paul Simons]

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Harald Hannelius wrote:

> 
> How come I can't get scp to work properly. It just complains like this:
> 
> scp foo host:
> bash: scp: command not found
> lost connection

	i ran into this problem when i installed ssh in /usr/local/bin
on our network.  Apparently bash doesn't have /usr/local/bin in it's
compiled in path, and it doesn't source /etc/profile.  According to the
bash man page:

"When an interactive shell that is not  a  login  shell  is
 started,  bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc,
 if that file exists."

Apparently, scp is considered a non-login interactive shell that invokes
bash.  A couple of solutions:

1. Make each user add /usr/local/bin (or wherever scp is) to their path in
their ~/.bashrc

2. Recompile bash to have /usr/local/bin (or wherever scp is) in the
default path.

3. Add an option to ssh to pass a path to the shell (i've seen this in
commercial ssh-1.2.27 as --with-path). And then recompile it.

4. Put scp and ssh somewhere in bash's default path (which from my
experience appears to be /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin).

Systems Programmer - Nathan Paul Simons
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