topic Re: rcp: protocol screwup in Operating System - Linux

rcp: protocol screwup

girishb — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 13:36:57 GMT

Hi Folks,

While I try to perform rcp from SUSE Linux to Redhat Enterprise Linux I am experiencing with following error.

rcp: protocol screwup: expected control record
rcp: lost connection

Please suggest!!

Thanks
Girish

Re: rcp: protocol screwup

Steven E. Protter — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:35:25 GMT

Shalom,

Check /var/log/messages on the Linux machine, and the equivalent on SUSE.

There is probably a problem in xinetd configuration. Perhaps a firewall is interfering.

SEP

Re: rcp: protocol screwup

girishb — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 14:47:07 GMT

Thanks for response, but I solved the problem.

There was a swap file which was named as .x*t(.s?).swp due to which rcp was not working.

I tried to do scp and it gave error copying above file. I got the file renamed, and rcp started working!!

Thanks again!!

Girish

Re: rcp: protocol screwup

girishb — Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:11:47 GMT

Thank you!!