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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Harald@iki.fi wrote:

> How come I can't get scp to work properly. It just complains like this:
>
> scp foo host:
> bash: scp: command not found
> lost connection

Maybe you should check for the path on the remote machine: it seems like
the remote shell can't find scp in its $PATH.

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Yo Harald!

It sounds like the sshd on the remote end can not find it's copy
of scp. Check the path that is complied into the remote sshd.

RGDS
GARY

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Harald Hannelius wrote:

> Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2000 22:01:44 +0200 (EET)
> From: Harald Hannelius <Harald@iki.fi>
> To: openssh-unix-dev@mindrot.org
> Subject: bash: scp: command not found
>
>
> How come I can't get scp to work properly. It just complains like this:
>
> scp foo host:
> bash: scp: command not found
> lost connection
>
>
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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Harald Hannelius wrote:

>
> How come I can't get scp to work properly. It just complains like this:
>
> scp foo host:
> bash: scp: command not found
> lost connection

i ran into this problem when i installed ssh in /usr/local/bin
on our network. Apparently bash doesn't have /usr/local/bin in it's
compiled in path, and it doesn't source /etc/profile. According to the
bash man page:

"When an interactive shell that is not a login shell is
started, bash reads and executes commands from ~/.bashrc,
if that file exists."

Apparently, scp is considered a non-login interactive shell that invokes
bash. A couple of solutions:

1. Make each user add /usr/local/bin (or wherever scp is) to their path in
their ~/.bashrc

2. Recompile bash to have /usr/local/bin (or wherever scp is) in the
default path.

3. Add an option to ssh to pass a path to the shell (i've seen this in
commercial ssh-1.2.27 as --with-path). And then recompile it.

4. Put scp and ssh somewhere in bash's default path (which from my
experience appears to be /usr/bin:/bin:/usr/sbin:/sbin).

Systems Programmer - Nathan Paul Simons
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A much simpler workaround is to create this symbolic link:

# ln -s /usr/local/bin/scp /usr/bin

This is how I fixed the problem here (Debian slink, 2.2.14 kernel).

Phil

On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Harald Hannelius wrote:

>
> How come I can't get scp to work properly. It just complains like this:
>
> scp foo host:
> bash: scp: command not found
> lost connection

scp must be in the server's PATH.

Damien

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>>>>> "Dominik" == Dominik Brettnacher <domi@saargate.de> writes:

Dominik> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000, Harald@iki.fi wrote:
>> How come I can't get scp to work properly. It just complains
>> like this:
>>
>> scp foo host: bash: scp: command not found lost connection

Dominik> Maybe you should check for the path on the remote
Dominik> machine: it seems like the remote shell can't find scp in
Dominik> its $PATH.

Or the "more SSH" way would be to put

PATH=<a path including scp and probably your normal stuff>

in ~/.ssh/environment on the machine being scp'ed to.

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On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:15:45 -0700 (MST), you wrote:
>1. Make each user add /usr/local/bin (or wherever scp is) to their path in
>their ~/.bashrc

That doesn't suffice.

>3. Add an option to ssh to pass a path to the shell (i've seen this in
>commercial ssh-1.2.27 as --with-path). And then recompile it.

For openssh, this is --with-default-path and works fine. This is the
way to go.

Greetings
Marc

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On Fri, 4 Feb 2000, Marc Haber wrote:

> On Wed, 2 Feb 2000 13:15:45 -0700 (MST), you wrote:
> >1. Make each user add /usr/local/bin (or wherever scp is) to their path in
> >their ~/.bashrc
>
> That doesn't suffice.
>
> >3. Add an option to ssh to pass a path to the shell (i've seen this in
> >commercial ssh-1.2.27 as --with-path). And then recompile it.
>
> For openssh, this is --with-default-path and works fine. This is the
> way to go.

I personally feel that if you set --prefix=/usr/local to install,
/usr/local/bin should be automatically added to the default path ...

Marc G. Fournier marc.fournier@acadiau.ca
Senior Systems Administrator Acadia University

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