From owner-ssh@clinet.fi Fri May 18 14:30:03 2001 Received: from smtp1.clinet.fi (smtp1.clinet.fi [194.100.2.57]) by hutcs.cs.hut.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA16209 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 14:30:02 +0300 (EET DST) Received: from mail.clinet.fi (mail.clinet.fi [194.100.0.7]) by smtp1.clinet.fi (Postfix) with ESMTP id 22C5E20472; Fri, 18 May 2001 14:29:52 +0300 (EEST) Received: (from majordom@localhost) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) id OAA11184 for ssh-outgoing; Fri, 18 May 2001 14:04:57 +0300 Received: from shepster.int.bmcomp.com (bmcomp.com [204.210.43.235]) by mail.clinet.fi (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id OAA11144 for ; Fri, 18 May 2001 14:04:51 +0300 Received: from shepster.int.bmcomp.com (bmcomp.com [204.210.43.235]) by shepster.int.bmcomp.com (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with SMTP id EAA26225; Fri, 18 May 2001 04:04:41 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200105181104.EAA26225@shepster.int.bmcomp.com> Date: Fri, 18 May 2001 04:04:41 -0700 (PDT) From: David Knight French Reply-To: David Knight French Subject: RE: problem with scp To: Gerard.Glas@nob.nl, cnobile@appliedtheory.com Cc: ssh@clinet.fi MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-MD5: WdWHjmf1CDQFFD4DvRgKUw== X-Mailer: dtmail 1.3.0 @(#)CDE Version 1.4.2 SunOS 5.8 i86pc i386 Sender: owner-ssh@clinet.fi Precedence: bulk If none of this works, put the following in .ssh/environment (or .ssh2/environment) on the remote host: PATH=/usr/local/bin:/usr/bin:/bin Of course PATH would be what you need to find scp. My guess is that scp is in /usr/local/bin. This is probably in your login scripts like .profile or /etc/profile. The problem is, scp uses ssh in non-login mode, thus the shell is not a login shell and the path is not set properly. The environment file solves this for you by making sure the PATH is set properly in these cases. To test my hypothesis, before creating the PATH entry in the environment file run: ssh remote_scp_host 'echo $PATH' You will probably just see a very basic PATH without the dir that scp resides in. Now create the environment file with a PATH entry and do it again. OTOH, if you are running a shell like csh or bash that have individual command files per invocation, e.g. .cshrc or .bashrc, look in there and make sure the PATH is being set properly and not being reset to something minimal. The above ssh ... above will help you track it down. Hope this helps. --Dave >X-Priority: 3 (Normal) >Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit >MIME-Version: 1.0 >Date: Thu, 17 May 2001 10:53:58 -0400 (EDT) >From: "Carl J. Nobile" >To: Gerard Glas >Subject: RE: problem with scp >Cc: "ssh@clinet.fi" > >Hi Gerard, > >Are you sure that the path to scp is in your PATH env var? Also if you >are running a GUI then log out and back in again, depending on how the >desktop is configured it might use a VC which will export it PATH env to >all subsequent xterms, so you have to logout and maybe restart X also. >Every time I've had this problem it been one or the other of these >problems. > >Carl > >On 17-May-01 Gerard Glas wrote: >> I try to do the following: >> >> dexter:24% scp /tmp/test obelix:/tmp >> gerard@obelix's password: >> sh: scp: not found >> lost connection >> dexter:25% >> >> Why I get always sh: scp: not found. >> >> I did already a ./configure --with-default-path=/..... >> no result. >> Does anybody know? > >------------------------------------------------------------------------ >E-Mail: Carl J. Nobile >Date: 17-May-01 Phone: 315-453-2912 Ex. 5336 >Time: 10:50:12 Fax: 315-479-0859 > >Software Engineering Group -- AppliedTheory Corp. >224 Harrison Street, 6th Floor, Syracuse, NY 13202 >------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- David Knight French Black Mountain Computer Consulting Voice: (858)279-4862 Email: dkf@bmcomp.com