Re: [ILUG] SCP confusion

From: Brendan Halpin (brendan.halpin at domain ul.ie)
Date: Thu 31 May 2001 - 15:12:24 IST


Niall O Broin <niall at domain linux.ie> writes:

> On Thu, May 31, 2001 at 01:03:17PM +0100, Brendan Halpin wrote:
>
> > Current problem is that scp fails to work:
> >
> > [brendan at domain wivenhoe newpan]$ scp getdates.sps brendan at domain isergp3.essex.ac.uk:/ufs/iserhome/users/brendan/work/ltr/v2beta/newpan/
> > brendan at domain isergp3.essex.ac.uk's password:
> > scp: warning: Executing scp1 compatibility.
> > scp: FATAL: Executing ssh1 in compatibility mode failed (Check that scp1 is in your PATH).
> > lost connection
> >
> > Is it simply that the two versions are simply not very compatible?
> > (ssh to log in works fine.)
>
> You need to ensure that on the remote side, scp and scp1 are in your default
> path. scp1 may well NOT be necessary - it may have just fallen back to that
> when it couldn't find scp, but it couldn't find scp1 either.

How do I control the remote path from scp's point of view? The path
I have in the shell (on the remote machine) sees scp but there
seems to be no scp1 anywhere. The ssh binary is in the same place
as scp, so it seems to be found...

...puzzled,

Brendan

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