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

[Steve Sakoman]

Matt,

Using scp on the Linux box is what fails.  I'm pretty sure it is a dropbear
server issue, since reverting to dropbear 0.47 works just fine.

Steve


On 10/16/07, Matt Johnston <matt at ucc.asn.au> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 04, 2007 at 09:29:38PM -0700, Steve Sakoman 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?
>
> I'll see if I can reproduce it here. Just to clarify, were
> you running scp on the gumstix or the Linux box when it
> failed? (whether it's a dbclient or dropbear-server problem)
>
> Cheers,
> Matt
>
>
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