scp to embedded system running dropbear yields results in zero length files

Steve Sakoman sakoman at gmail.com
Sat Oct 6 03:06:40 WST 2007


I reverted to dropbear 0.47 and the problem went away.  Will try 0.48 a
little later today to see which release introduced the problem.

Steve

On 10/4/07, Steve Sakoman <sakoman at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> I am one of the early users of the OpenEmbedded Linux build for gumstix (
> 2.6.21 kernel, uclibc).
>
> The build image includes dropbear 0.49, and it seems to work fine in most
> cases.  I am able to login to the gumstix remotely via ssh.  I am able to
> use ssh on the gumstix to log into my linux box. I am also able to use scp
> on the gumstix to copy files to my linux box.
>
> However using scp to copy files from the  Linux box to the gumstix doesn't
> quite work.   The copied file appears on the gumstix in the proper location,
> but it always has zero length!
>
> Any ideas on what might be wrong?
>
> Regards,
>
> Steve
>
>
>
>
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