ssh rcp problem

[Tim Killinger]

any one have any ideas for me?

When i issue the following rcp:

$rcp file.dat TKillinger@icgnode.veriz.com:/tkillinger/tmp.tmp

I get:

TKillinger@icgnode.veriz.com's password:
/usr/bin/sh: No such file or directory
scp: warning: child process (/opt/ssh2/bin/ssh2) exited with code 0.

I have 3 other hosts configured with the same 11.11 installation that work fine.

Thanks in advance!!

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

Do you have the /tkillinger directory created on icgnode.veriz.com?

Enjoy :)

Pedro

[Tim Killinger]

yes, the destination directory exists.

[Pedro Cirne]

Hi,

Try to refer to file.dat with absolut path:

$rcp /path_to_file.dat/file.dat TKillinger@icgnode.veriz.com:/tkillinger/tmp.tmp

Enjoy :)

Pedro

[RAC_1]

remsh icgnode.veriz.com -l TKillinger 'who -um'

Does that work?? also user name is more than 8 chars.

[Tim Killinger]

Pedro, using the complete path, the error is the same.

RAC, the results to the remsh are :

remshd: Login incorrect.

And I've carfull verify that I'm using a valid username on that node.

I'm not acually using TKillinger - the names were changed to protect the innocent:)

[RAC_1]

Let's isolate the problem.

1. Plain telnet to other system.
2. Key in user_name and password.
3. Once logged on, do who -um

What is in the last coloumn of above command?? The same name/ip_address need to go in .rhosts file in home dir. something as follows.

source_host/ip_Address "user_name"

Is that the case with you??

[Raj D.]

Hi Tim ,

Check $HOME/.rhosts permission is set properly.

You can do the same through scp also , if SSH is installed and sshd is running, and ssh-keygen is set. That can be done without password , like rcp and better than rcp.
$ scp file.dat icgnode.veriz.com:/tkillinger/tmp.tmp

Cheers ,
Raj.

[Doug O'Leary]

Hey;

I think there's a layer of misdirection here that previous posters may have glossed over. You issue an rcp command but get an error from scp. That tells me that someone has removed the original rcp and linked it to scp.

Just to prevent confusion, I'd suggest using scp directly.

Try issuing a couple of ssh commands to the remote system to verify ssh functionality:

ssh -l TKillinger icgnode.veriz.com ls -ld /tmp
ssh -l TKillinger icgnode.veriz.com ls -ld /tkillinger
ssh -l TKillinger icgnode.veriz.com ls -ld /tkillinger/tmp.tmp

If the first one errors out, you have an issue with your ssh connectivity that needs to be addressed before continuing.

If any of the second two fail, it means your target directory doesn't exist so you won't b e able to copy a file to it.

Assuming all three of those work, it's time to verify the host. You mentioned you have three other hosts on which this command works. Verify via nslookup that there are no discrepancies between the name resolution for icgnode.veriz.com between those three hosts and the one on which you're having problems.

If all that's correct, then try the scp command with a couple of -v-v options and post the results. Hopefully, that'll give you and/or us some more information to examine.

HTH;

Doug O'Leary

[Bob_Vance]

Another thing that's curious to me is the error msg, itself:

/usr/bin/sh: No such file or directory


If the source file or destination file doesn't exist, I get this:

Pine3 ## scp setup bobv@pine3:/cxcxcc/t.t
Password:
scp: /cxcxcc/t.t: No such file or directory

or

Pine3 ## scp xsetup bobv@pine3:/cxcxcc/t.t
Password:
xsetup: No such file or directory


I would presume that it can't really be that '/usr/bin/sh' doesn't exist.


In fact, if user shell doesn't exist, I just keep getting password request:

Pine3 ## scp setup bobv@pine3:/cxcxcc/t.t
Password:
Password:
Password:


or, if it has perm problem:

Pine3 ## scp setup bobv@pine3:/cxcxcc/t.t
Password:
/usr/bin/shxx: Permission denied
lost connection


bv

[Kevin Wright]

is ssh/scp in the user's path and executable on the destination node? Recently had a similiar issue and it was due to scp not being executable on the remote node.