HP-UX and scp

[Pablo Arnaldi]

Hi!
I'm trying to pass files from one HP-UX 10.20 to another using "scp".
It works fine, but when it tryes to pass special files
( such permissions prw-rw-rw-)
scp stops transfer.
Any one knows how to transfer
special files using scp?
Thanks in advance and best regards!

Pablo

[Robin Wakefield]

Pablo,

You won't be able to scp a named pipe, as it's associated with process interaction, and never "contains" anything on disk. scp will just sit there trying to "read" the file/process connected to the pipe.

Rgds,Robin

[Vincente Fernandes]

I agree with robin, you won't be able to copy named pipe files with scp. You need to create/recreate those files on the destination machine.

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Special files like /dev/dsk/xxxx or /dev/rmt/xxx are in general unique to a platform and what is /dev/rdsk/c1t2d0 on 1 box may not even exist on another machine or be a completely different device.
Named pipes typically don't have the same meaning either.
You really need to exclude the special device files and creat them using mknod. Man 1m mknod for details. You could remsh a mknod command to create these within a script.

[Pablo Arnaldi]

I found another way
chek it out.

cd /
tar -cvf - fromdir | ssh site.com 'cd /destdir; tar -xvf -'

It works.
Thank you and best regards

[A. Clay Stephenson]

Tar or cpio can certainly be used to create device nodes on a remote system but you must understand what you are doing. If, for example, you overwrite an existing /dev/rmt/0m with another device node with different major and minor device numbers, you have just clobbered your functioning tape drive. Just because a command can be made to work does not mean that it is correct. I'm not saying tthat you are wrong but rather that you need to understand the possible consequences.