On Sun, May 13, 2001 at 04:11:59PM +1000, Alan L Tyree wrote:
> On the remote machine:
>
> bash-2.03$ type scp
> scp is /usr/local/bin/scp
> bash-2.03$ type ssh
> ssh is /usr/local/bin/ssh
>
> Remote machine is:
>
> bash-2.03$ uname -a
> SunOS janus 5.7 Generic_106541-12 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-250
>
> It doesn't have a /etc/environment file (not that I could change it
> anyway).
>
>
>
> >> > bash: scp: command not found
> >> > lost connection
> >>
> >> This is caused by the scp binary not being in the default path on the
> >> remote host. This is also a bitch to fix.
> >>
> >> Usual method is to add the path to /etc/environment, which works on
> >> some SysV-ish systems [most notably Irix and Linux]
> >>
> >> C.
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Add the /usr/local/bin directory to your .bashrc or equivalent.
The other thing that can cause this is having output produced by
your .bashrc (saw this a few days ago) - this seems to confuse scp...
Stephen
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