Protocol error's with 2.1.0p2

[Damien Miller]

On Sun, 28 May 2000, A.L. wrote:

>  I'm getting "Protocol errors" when trying to scp files
> from my laptop to my desktop (only when trying to scp
> root at laptop:/path/file, not vis-vis).  See screen dump's at end
> of e-mail for exact details.  The most confusing thing about this
> problem (to me anyway), is that this is a one-way problem.  I can
> log into the laptop and scp files down from the desktop no problems.

Do you have something in you .bashrc (or similar) which causes 
output at login time? This is likely the problem. 

Move whatever it is to .bash_login or similar so it only gets 
executed when you are starting an interactive session.

-d

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