[Info-vax] ssh2 on VMS error message

[Sami Zahra]

On Saturday, December 28, 2013 9:45:51 AM UTC-8, Stephen Hoffman wrote:
> On 2013-12-28 02:38:55 +0000, Sami Zahra said: > The target file name is a VMS legal file name format. Sami, here's a suggestion for you. It appears you're in a pretty good position to get this scp error formally and quickly resolved. Please check with your OpenVMS system manager and see if they can resolve this case locally. Failing that, please ask them to ring up HP support (or whomever is your primary path for OpenVMS questions and support) for a look at this configuration and this issue. Given you're probably still working at that same organization, I can assume a couple of things about this situation. It's entirely understandable why you've been obfuscating the file and directory names and expurgating details from your postings, and it's also clear why you've been evading some of the questions. (The organizational necessity for secrecy is unfortunately not helping the discussion of the problem here proceeed apace, though.) I would also assume that your organization almost certainly has an HP support contract for OpenVMS and for TCP/IP Services and the other installed software, and also almost certainly has HP patch access, and most likely has support for the particular Linux server involved here. Both TCP/IP Services ssh and sftp have certainly had a few bugs in recent years, so a bug in scp is certainly conceivable. Or there's just something wrong with the scp command syntax here, or with the Linux server configuration that you're working with, or an incompatibility with TCP/IP Services and the ssh daemon in use on the Linux server. But this determination and subsequent resolution will likely require somebody that can discuss the command and the details of the configuration, and that likely can't happen here in comp.os.vms newsgroup. Certainly not as quickly as a call to HP (or whoever's been NDA'd and vetted to look at these cases) can resolve this. ps: all of the above is based on public information. -- Pure Personal Opinion | HoffmanLabs LLC

Thank you Stephen, I have logged a call with HP support, I will report back to the group on HP solution or fix to the issue.
Sami