scp/sftp weirdness
Erich Weiler
weiler at soe.ucsc.edu
Sat Jul 8 03:29:36 EST 2006
Hi Chris,
You are absolutely right, that fixes it. I was able to recompile and
install in the right place and all is well. Thanks very much!
ciao, erich
Chris Rapier wrote:
>
>
> Erich Weiler wrote:
>> Hi Damien,
>>
>> Respectfully, I understand what you are saying but I'm not seeing it
>> in practice. I put the path to all the new SSH binaries in the very
>> front of my PATH as such:
>
> Right, the paths might be setup however you like but if I remember
> correctly the binary has the preferred path to the binary built into it.
>
> If you do a 'strings scp | grep \/' you'll end up seeing the the default
> path to the binary.
>
> For example, mine reports
> cuckoo:~/ssh/hpn12/openssh-4.3p2 rapier$ strings scp | grep \/
> /usr/local/bin/ssh
> %s/%s: name too long
> %s/%s
> /dev/null
> Couldn't open /dev/null: %s
>
> So by default its looking in /usr/local/bin/ssh and even if I have ./ in
> my path it doesn't matter because it will look in /usr/local/bin/ for
> the binary.
>
> What you can do to test things out is override the default using the '-S
> /explicit/path/to/ssh/binary' command.
>
> Good luck!
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Erich Weiler
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