scp times out

[Lisa Kachold]

netstat -anp |grep 22  (get anything?)
ps -e |grep ssh

/etc/init.d/sshd start

or /etc/init.d/ssh start

nmap localhost (watch for port 22)

On Fri, Oct 23, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Craig White <craigwhite at azapple.com> wrote:

> On Fri, 2009-10-23 at 17:12 -0500, Josef Lowder wrote:
> > I last wrote (in part):
> > > > This scp worked a year ago when I tried it and I've made
> > > > no changes in this system since.
> >
> > Then Matt Graham wrote:
> > > No changes in a year? What? Don't you keep the system updated?
> >
> > That's correct. I have several computers, on some of which I do
> > regular updates, but on my "old reliable" I never make changes
> > (or updates) because it works more reliably than any of my other
> > computers.  I tried doing updates on it a couple of times and each
> > time the updates royally messed everything up so bad that it took
> > me weeks to get it back to working reliably again.  So that is how
> > I keep it, and it never fails.  Can't say the same for the others.
> >
> > Change is not always good.
> >
> > In this case, I've finally figured out that the scp problem is apparently
> > related to the fact that I changed modem/routers and the new Motorola
> > router (from Qwest) has apparently created the current problem.
> >
> > Today, I found that I had to enable passthrough in order to be able to
> > pass files between computers on my network, but in doing that, the
> > inet address got messed up and now I can't get that reset to the
> > correct inet address.
> >
> > I've searched the 'net and tried everything I could find to try.
> > One time I did get it working, but then (apparently) the router
> > messed it up again. I've tried:
> >
> > # dhclient -r
> > # dhclient
> > # ifdown eth0
> > # ifup eth0
> > # /etc/init.d/network restart
> >
> > ... and a bunch of other things.  After many repeated attempts,
> > at one point, ifconfig showed the correct inet address and I was
> > able to connect ... but then it self-disconnected somehow and
> > I've not been able to get it restored.
> >
> > This is just another reason why, once I get a computer system
> > to work correctly, I dread changing things.
> >
> > If it ain't broke, don't fix it.
> > Once you get it fixed, don't mess with it.
> ----
> I can't quite figure out if this is an indictment on all Linux in
> general or the specific distribution that he uses but this is pathetic.
>
> If the distribution you choose to use breaks because you update, you
> need to find a different one...period, end of discussion.
>
> Craig
>
>
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