Is this normal?

[Darren Tucker]

Tim Cagle wrote:
> [tim at javadev1 tim]$ scp opteron:/tmp/tim2 boomshakalaka:/tmp
> ssh: boomshakalaka: Name or service not known
> lost connection
> [tim at javadev1 tim]$ echo $?
> 0
> 
> And if so why given that the man page says:
> 
> "DIAGNOSTICS
>       scp exits with 0 on success or >0 if an error occurred."
> 
> I've tried to search the archives to no avail BTW.
> Sorry if I am asking the wrong question in the wrong
> forum but I did not know what else to do.

Which version of OpenSSH is that?  There were some changes in 4.3x that 
fixed up the exit codes for ssh(1) for certain error conditions.

The soon-to-be-current version also seems ok:

$ ssh -V
OpenSSH_4.4p1, OpenSSL 0.9.7f 22 Mar 2005
$ scp /tmp/foo nosuch:/tmnp/foo2; echo $?
ssh: nosuch: Name or service not known
lost connection
1

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