SFTP doesn't PUT the file

[Stephen Daddona]

I'm trying to test "batch" mode SFTP between twp VMS systems. (I'll eventually want to PUT a file to a Linux system, but that's another episode.) I've referenced a couple of threads already that enabled me to get past a couple of problems, but I'm now having a problem where the file doesn't get "PUT". (The file doesn't get sent.) Here's the batch file contents:

setext txt
put sys$login:test.txt

I've tried the following in the PUT command:

put test.txt
put /sys$login/test.txt

TEST.TXT is a one-line file:
this is a test

The SFTP command looks thusly:
sftp -v "-B" test.cmd "csmalley@sysdev"

I've changed the batch file to Stream-LF format with the 'set file/attr=(rfm:stmlf)' command. I've set up host-based authentication. And, lastly, here's the last few lines from the SFTP -v output:

Sftp2/SFTP2.C:3206: buffer: 'AUTHENTICATED YES
'

debug: ssh_sigchld_real_callback
SshFileXferClient/SSHFILEXFERC.C:1368: ssh_file_client_receive_proc: coming in with extension data, OpenVMS host
SshFileCopy/SSHFILECOPY.C:939: Connection to remote host 'csmalley@sysdev', ready to serve requests.
sftp> setext txt
Ascii extensions are : txt
sftp> put sys$login:test.txt
SshFCRecurse/SSHFC_RECURSE.C:280: File is "raw", and it needs to be parsed.
SshFCTransfer/SSHFC_TRANSFER.C:2051: File list has 2 files.
SshFCTransfer/SSHFC_TRANSFER.C:462: Next source file is /sys$login:test.txt .
SshFCTransfer/SSHFC_TRANSFER.C:145: Received error `syserr: I/O stream empty, file: ./sys$login:test.txt' (4).
open: ./sys$login:test.txt (dst): unspecified failure (server msg: 'syserr: I/O stream empty, file: ./sys$login:test.txt')
ssh_pipe_stream_destroy
SshReadLine/SSHREADLINE.C:3717: Uninitializing ReadLine...

Any suggestions are welcome! Thanks in advance!

[Steven Schweda]

alp $ dire sftp.test
%DIRECT-W-NOFILES, no files found

alp $ dire [.sftp]

Directory ALP$DKA0:[SMS.SFTP]

SFTP.TEST;2

Total of 1 file.

alp $ type sftp.bat
put sftp/sftp.test

alp $ sftp "-B" sftp.bat sms@alp
sftp> put sftp/sftp.test
sftp.test | 38B | 0.0 kB/s | TOC: 00:00:01 | 100%

alp $ dire sftp.test

Directory ALP$DKA0:[SMS]

SFTP.TEST;1

Total of 1 file.

alp $ diff sftp.test [.sftp]
Number of difference sections found: 0
Number of difference records found: 0

DIFFERENCES /IGNORE=()/MERGED=1-
ALP$DKA0:[SMS]SFTP.TEST;1-
ALP$DKA0:[SMS.SFTP]SFTP.TEST;2
alp $

What could go wrong?

alp $ tcpip show version

HP TCP/IP Services for OpenVMS Alpha Version V5.4 - ECO 6
on a COMPAQ Professional Workstation XP1000 running OpenVMS V7.3-2

alp $ sftp "-V"
alp$dka0:[sys0.syscommon.][sysexe]tcpip$ssh_sftp2.exe: SSH Secure Shell OpenVMS
(V5.5) 3.2.0 on COMPAQ Professional Workstation - VMS V7.3-2


Of course, "/sys$login:test.txt" does not
look like any of what you said was in your
batch file.

[Stephen Daddona]

Just for fun (!), I tried "/sys$login:test.txt" with the same results.

Dumb question: I'm entering the SFTP command (sftp -v "-B" test.cmd "csmalley@sysdev") at the system prompt. I don't need to have in a VMS batch job, do I?

[Steven Schweda]

> I don't need to have in a VMS batch job,
> do I?

I didn't, did I? (I thought that a big advantage of providing a transcript was
obviating questions like that.)

Around here, with "-v":

[...]
SshFileXferClient/SSHFILEXFERC.C:1441: ssh_file_client_receive_proc: coming in w
ith extension data, OpenVMS host
SshFileXferClient/SSHFILEXFERC.C:1487: vms_plus_sftp_version = 2
SshFileCopy/SSHFILECOPY.C:1019: Connection to remote host 'sms@alp', ready to se
rve requests.
sftp> put sftp/sftp.test
SshFCRecurse/SSHFC_RECURSE.C:368: File is "raw", and it needs to be parsed.
Ssh2SftpServer/SSHFILEXFERS.C:2780: Received SSH_FXP_STAT
Ssh2SftpServer/SSHFILEXFERS.C:2804: Statting file `sftp/sftp.test'
SshFCTransfer/SSHFC_TRANSFER.C:2321: File list has 2 files.
SshFCTransfer/SSHFC_TRANSFER.C:575: Next source file is sftp/sftp.test .
SshFCTransfer/SSHFC_TRANSFER.C:206: Received error `syserr: no such file or dire
ctory, file: ./sftp.test' (2).
Ssh2SftpServer/SSHFILEXFERS.C:1907: Received SSH_FXP_OPEN
Ssh2SftpServer/SSHFILEXFERS.C:2001: Downloading `sftp/sftp.test'
[...]

Note that _my_ "Next source file" name agrees
with what's in _my_ batch file.

> Just for fun (!), I tried
> "/sys$login:test.txt" with the same
> results.

So far as I can tell, you're _always_ using
that colon. Are you sure that you know which batch file you're using?

For the record, adding "setext txt" to my
batch file had no significant effect.

[Stephen Daddona]

I tried /sys$login/test.txt (see my original submission)

I also put it (and the others in double-quotes - no difference.

I'll keep trying!

[Steven Schweda]

> I tried /sys$login/test.txt (see my
> original submission)

You mean the original submission where it
says this?:

SshFCTransfer/SSHFC_TRANSFER.C:462: Next source file is /sys$login:test.txt .

I see a colon there. I don't see one in my
transcript.

Of course, I also don't know any of your
software versions. (I showed you mine, ...)

[Thomas Ritter]

Graig, try the process interactively and report the complete results. Verbose will give us the software version of client and server.

$ sftp -v "csmalley@sysdev"
>ls *.* !test to see if dir lookups work.
>put test.txt

Changing to stream_lf is best performed with FDL.

$ convert/fdl=sys$input input output
record; format stream_lf

[Ian Miller.]

If you are using HP TCPIP for VMS then you have to be up to date to have any chance of this working.

[Thomas Ritter]

Craig, has the problem been solved ?