Re: Possible cygwin scp bug

[Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>]

On Sat, 16 Jul 2022 09:19:35 -0400
"Knight, Dave" wrote:
> I am running cygwin virtualbox running a WinDev2206Eval "appliance" (.ova
> from microsoft).  Everything else I've tested so far in cygwin runs as
> expected except scp when the <source> file path is an absolute path, e.g.
> /tmp/foo.  Scp <source> references to that file using a relative path, e.g.
> ../../tmp/foo, work fine.  For example:
> 
> $ ls > /tmp/foo   # create a /tmp/file
> $ ls -l /tmp/foo
> $ scp /tmp/foo bcserver:foobar  # fails with /tmp/foo "file not found"
> $ pwd    # (CWD is /Users/dmk)
> $ scp ../../tmp/foo bcserver:foobar   # this works
> $ cd /tmp
> $ scp foo bcserver:foobar   # this also works
> 
> Please see the attached (script) log file scp.log for the actual results
> using these commands.
> See also the attached cygcheck.out file.
> 
> Note that:
> 
>   1 -  absolute paths work OK for an scp <destination> pathname
> 
>   2 - the "scp /tmp/foo bcserver:foobar" command works OK in win11's
> PowerShell
> 
>   3 - the scp target host (bcserver) is a FreeBSD 12 OS running in a
> TrueNAS "jail".

You do not seem to install cygwin scp (openssh package), do you?

-- 
Takashi Yano <takashi.yano@nifty.ne.jp>