"stdin is not a tty" when using SCP

gutterboy · 12-05-2010, 10:59 AM

Hey guys.... I used the below command to do a transfer from one server to another & got the message "stdin is not a tty"; however the transfer appeared to go through fine.

Code:

scp -rp -P 22 filename.tar.gz root@204.xxx.xxx.xx:/home/oca/public_html/filename.tar.gz

Is this anything to worry about - do I need to fix it & do the transfer again? ..or should my files be fine?

Thanks!

unSpawn · 12-05-2010, 12:15 PM

- You shouldn't SSH to any root account over the network.
- To check if a file is "fine" run md5sum or sha1sum on filename.tar.gz and then do the same on the remote /home/oca/public_html/filename.tar.gz and see if the hashes match.
- SCP / SSH may not need a (pseudo-)terminal but something may expect it regardless on the remote end. Does any global or personal shell resource files contain "stty" or "mesg" ('egrep -r "stty|mesg" /etc/bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile;')?

gutterboy · 12-05-2010, 12:36 PM

I tried to run what you said but got this..

$ md5sum filename.tar.gz
md5sum: not found
$ sha1sum filename.tar.gz
sha1sum: not found

Quote:

Does any global or personal shell resource files contain "stty" or "mesg" ('egrep -r "stty|mesg" /etc/bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile;')?

Don't really quite understand what you mean there sorry.

unSpawn · 12-05-2010, 02:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by gutterboy

md5sum: not found

If

Code:

which md5sum; locate md5sum; find /usr -type f -name md5sum

doesn't find any then the binary is not there. That would be quite surprising.

Quote:

Originally Posted by gutterboy

Don't really quite understand what you mean there

No need to feel sorry. I just meant that you could execute

Code:

egrep -r "stty|mesg" /etc/bashrc /etc/profile /etc/profile.d ~/.bashrc ~/.bash_profile

gutterboy · 12-05-2010, 04:07 PM

Ok I ran that & got this..

Code:

/usr/local/share/python2.6/Tools/scripts/md5sum.py
/usr/ports/sysutils/e2fsprogs/files/patch-tests-md5sum
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum/Makefile
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum/distinfo
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum/files
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum/files/patch-Makefile
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum/files/patch-md5.c
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum/pkg-descr
/usr/ports/sysutils/isomd5sum/pkg-plist

The second command produced..

Code:

egrep: /etc/bashrc: No such file or directory
/etc/profile:# mesg y
egrep: /etc/profile.d: No such file or directory
egrep: /www/virtual/brett/.bashrc: No such file or directory
egrep: /www/virtual/brett/.bash_profile: No such file or directory

Thank You!

Reuti · 12-06-2010, 05:35 AM

Hi,

are you on Linux or any BSD? In BSD it might be just md5 for this application.

gutterboy · 12-06-2010, 06:07 AM

Yeah.... the server I am running this on is BSD, my second server is CentOS.

gutterboy · 12-06-2010, 10:38 AM

Ok, tried it & it worked... thanks

File is fine.