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Yes, ssh connections are accepted. I have been trying to read a little about scp since I posted to see if its right.
Here is scenario.
My target is an embedded system with no hard drive. I have 32 Megs memory, or which 9 megs is already being used up as a ramdisk. I need to be able to upload firmware upgrades and then run them. The files then might be up to 8 megs. I dont want to leave 8 megs free space on my system as this would chew up significant percentage of ram so I created a 8 Meg ramdisk that is empty but can be mounted when needed.
So I want this.
When scp asks to upload file I want to mount the ramdisk before uploading file. Is there a way to have scp do this, to run a command before initialising the transfer?
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