topic Re: sftp issues in Operating System - OpenVMS

sftp issues

SAMI AHMAD — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:35:00 GMT

hi can someone tell me what does the "*" means in file listing in sftp ? the file with the "*" showing up is having issues being transferred

sftp > ls -l

-rw-r----- ABC1.TXT;1

-rwxrwxrwx DEF3.TXT;1* <<<<< file which is failing ftp .

-rw-r-------- JEB4.TXT;2

Re: sftp issues

SDIH1 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 14:46:44 GMT

The * at the end of the filename means a file, a / at the end means a directory.
This seems to be more or less documented in the ssh/sftp RFC´s
but in my experience it´s best to leave ls -l alone when sftpíng to VMS.
If you want a friendly output, you might be able to get it using
ssh you@vmshost dir/size/sec or similar.

Re: sftp issues

x2084 — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:10:36 GMT

The appended '*' flags a file as executable, which is consistent with the protection mask showing the 'x'. This seems to be the same as with 'ls -F' on Unix, which appends characters to classify a file.

Re: sftp issues

SAMI AHMAD — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 15:31:58 GMT

we are unable to get this file as sftp is appending another version "011" to the file name and saying it cant find the file, but the file is there .

is there some local parameter controlling this ?

>>>>> sftp> get TRAN_20110630_1145.011

>>>>> fcr_parse_raw: >>>>> /pasdisk4/leeway/outgoing/ready/tran_20110630_1145.011.011 (src): >>>>> no such file (server msg: 'syserr: no such file or directory

Re: sftp issues

Steven Schweda — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 17:52:35 GMT

   With my weak psychic powers, I don't know whether the SFTP client or
server is a VMS system, or which version of anything is running
anywhere.

> we are unable to get this file [...]

   Get _which_ file? From where? What does a directory listing on the
server system say?

> [...] no such file or directory

   How should I know if this file really exists? Do you have any
evidence that it does?

> [...] get TRAN_20110630_1145.011

> [...]/tran_20110630_1145.011.011

Is someone case-sensitive? Do you need to use quotation marks
somewhere?

Re: sftp issues

SAMI AHMAD — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 18:25:10 GMT

the client and server are both VMS systems running alpha 7.3-1 , The file we are trying to transfer is

TRAN_20110630_1145.011;1

Directory PASDISK4:[LEEWAY.INCOMING.TRANSFER]

PLAZ_20051211_0020.030;1

PLAZ_20051231_0015.030;1

SSH2.DIR;1 1

TCPIP$SSH_SFTP-SERVER2.LOG;2

TCPIP$SSH_SFTP-SERVER2.LOG;1

TICK_20110721_1211.011;1

TRAN_20110630_1145.011;1

TRAN_20110720_0030.031;1

525

TRAN_20110720_1230.032;1

211

Total of 9 files, 784 blocks.

PASY$

Re: sftp issues

Steven Schweda — Fri, 22 Jul 2011 19:04:56 GMT

> the client and server are both VMS systems running alpha 7.3-1 ,

   That's a start. More helpful might be:

      tcpip show version

and, possibly:

      sftp "-V"

> Directory PASDISK4:[LEEWAY.INCOMING.TRANSFER]

Can't see the file ownership or permissions that way, but my guess
would be that the SFTP software is buggy. At VMS V7.3-1, it could be
very old, and old TCPIP software can be much worse than newer versions.
If you ask for "TRAN_20110630_1145.011", and the SFTP client seems to be
asking for "tran_20110630_1145.011.011", then I'd call it a bug. A
(much) newer version seems to look much different from yours:

alp $ tcpip show version

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.6 - ECO 5
on a COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 running OpenVMS V8.3

alp $ sftp "-V"
alp$dkc0:[sys0.syscommon.][sysexe]tcpip$ssh_sftp2.exe: SSH Secure Shell OpenVMS
(V5.5) 3.2.0 on COMPAQ Professional Workstation - VMS V8.3

alp $ sftp sms@alp-l

@ SYS$MANAGER:ANNOUNCE.TXT   [Later versions aren't bug-free, either.]
sftp> cd itrc
ALP$DKC0:[SMS.ITRC]
sftp> get a_b_c.123
a_b_c.123                         |    14B |   0.0 kB/s | TOC: 00:00:01 | 100%
sftp> quit

alp $

Does it work better for a file name like "abc.def" than it does for
"abc.123"? It could be confused by a name extension which could be a
version number.

In any case, I'd look for a TCPIP ECO which is newer than what you
have now.