[ILUG] scp unpleasantness

[bscanlan at irish-times.com]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2001 at 03:44:49PM +0000, Jerry Connolly wrote:
> This is almost certainly the problem though.  Make sure that whatever shell
> your user is using has the PATH set in a place that will be called even if
> the shell is not interactive.  sshrc perhaps.  (If you've got to the stage 
> that you can run 'which scp', then it's interactive).

I found OpenSSH very ignoring of what I set in my PATH when it was looking
for scp - I ended up having to set /usr/local/bin as part of the ./configure
option --with-default-path, even though my prefix was /usr/local. 

Brian.
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Brian Scanlan, Systems Administrator.
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