[Savannah-hackers] [ 101853 ] sftp problem

[nobody]

Support Request #101853, was updated on 2003-Feb-17 06:57
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Category: Download Area
Status: Open
Priority: 9
Summary: sftp problem

By: yeupou
Date: 2003-Feb-23 02:24
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Alexl , we actually cannot say it "which it clearly doesn't [work for 
most people"  as obviously we have feedback only from people 
with unsuccessful experience with it here. 
 
It should remains in the faq as an alternative that *may* work. 
But we clearly lacks of informations about how it works and why 
it's does not work while everythings seems to be well configured 
on both parts. 
 
We added it in a hurry because rsync is, as jvm said, pretty 
uneasy to learn when unfamiliar (while the basic syntax is very 
easy, when you try complicated stuff, it becomes harder and 
harder). That explain the special status of sftp here. 

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By: jwm
Date: 2003-Feb-23 02:08
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Another 'me too' for the sftp problem - no interactive mode
and no indications as to why the connection is closed,
even at the highest verbosity levels. This is on Debian
stable, which is using openssh 3.4p1-1, apparently.

The reason I wanted to use it was to fix an upload mistake,
but I found I could use rsync to accomplish the same ends
if I created a mirror of the file area that I wanted and 
uploaded it with something like:

rsync -e=ssh -r --delete filearea/ address@hidden:/upload/my-project/

This put filearea/stable.pkg/1.01/yaf-splash_1.01.tar.gz into
upload/yaf-splash/stable.pkg/1.01/yaf-splash_1.01.tar.gz for me,
and cleaned out some directory name goofs I made. Note that rsync's
behaviour with regards to trailing slashes is a bit quirky - this 
worked for me, but I'm not sure what would happen if you left the 
trailing slashes off - it might do the wrong thing, and that's worth
commenting on in the FAQ.



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