strange scp error on HPUX 11

[Damien Miller]

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Jeff Layton wrote:

> Hi,
>   I recently built openssh 2.9p2 on HP-UX 11 using GCC-3.0. ssh seems to
> work fine, but scp gives the following error whenever I try to use it
> (some names changed to protect the guilty).  It seems to treat the first
> argument as a hostname no matter whether it is or not. Any
> perfectly legal scp invocation gives the same error (with the
> first argument as the offending hostname). Anyone else seeing this
> problem?

Bizarre - can you try instumenting the colon() function in misc.c with
printfs to see if, where and why it is returning a non-zero value?

-d

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