OpenSSH-2.5.1p1 scp hangs when scping into an RH (6.0|7.0) bo x

[mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org]

On Fri, 23 Feb 2001, Jim Breton wrote:

> On Wed, Feb 21, 2001 at 07:07:33PM -0600, mouring at etoh.eviladmin.org wrote:
> > I'm stumped, since I can't replicate this on any Redhat box under my
> > control I can't provide any other suggestions, hints, tricks, etc.
> > 
> > I wish I could help more, but without finding some hint as to what is
> > befuddling it there is not much more I can do. =(
> 
> Well, I am now volunteering to be called an *sshole.
> 
> For some reason, and I promise with *no* changes of which I am aware on
> either the client or the server machines, this is working fine now
> (except scp but you already know about that... fyi I get "lost
> connection" on scp, hopefully that is the error everyone else gets and
> not something special happening to me ;) ).
> 
Make sure scp is in your path.  By default  ${PREFIX}/bin is not included.
A quick and dirty solution is just to ln -s ${PREFIX/bin/scp  /usr/bin/scp

- Ben