Re: SCP error status broken on SuSE 9.1?

From: Darren Tucker (dtucker_at_dodgy.net.au)
Date: 07/27/04 

Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 12:20:10 +0000 (UTC)

In article <ce5gp6$82p$1@s1.uklinux.net>, KevJohnP <nospam@nowhere.com> wrote:
>I have a program that calls scp to transfer a file to a
>pre-authenticated user. The problem is that scp is copying the file
>fine but giving back inconsistent return codes - mostly success (0) but
>occassionally -1 with no information any different in the -v debug
>output. In all cases the file has transferred fine.
>
>The platform is SuSE 9.1 client transferring to a Solaris9 X86 server.
>
>Anyone seen this before??

Yes, and it looked like a bug in SunSSH:
http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=813 

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