strange scp error on HPUX 11

Jeff Layton jtlayton at bigfoot.com
Wed Jul 11 23:16:34 EST 2001


Oops -- my bad...I had accidentally symlinked scp to ssh instead which was
generating the error. Sorry for the false alarm!
--
Jeff Layton (jtlayton at bigfoot.com)

    "Down that path lies madness. On the other hand, the road to hell is
     paved with melting snowballs."
        -- Larry Wall

On Wed, 11 Jul 2001, Damien Miller wrote:

> 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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> 
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