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Bug 153864

Summary: net-misc/openssh: scp -C generates error message: ssh: illegal option -- (
Product: Gentoo Linux Reporter: Alexander Skwar <askwar>
Component: Current packagesAssignee: Gentoo Linux bug wranglers <bug-wranglers>
Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE    
Severity: normal    
Priority: High    
Version: 2006.1   
Hardware: All   
OS: Linux   
Whiteboard:
Package list:
Runtime testing required: ---

Description Alexander Skwar 2006-11-02 13:53:05 UTC
alexander@blatt /dev/shm $ ssh -V
OpenSSH_4.4p1-hpn12v11, OpenSSL 0.9.8d 28 Sep 2006

alexander@blatt /dev/shm $ scp -C ns hetzner:
ssh: illegal option -- (
usage: ssh [-1246AaCfgkMNnqsTtVvXxY] [-b bind_address] [-c cipher_spec]
           [-D [bind_address:]port] [-e escape_char] [-F configfile]
           [-i identity_file] [-L [bind_address:]port:host:hostport]
           [-l login_name] [-m mac_spec] [-O ctl_cmd] [-o option] [-p port]
           [-R [bind_address:]port:host:hostport] [-S ctl_path]
           [-w local_tun[:remote_tun]] [user@]hostname [command]
lost connection

I used to be able to do "scp -C" and it's also listed in the scp man page:

     -C      Compression enable.  Passes the -C flag to ssh(1) to enable com-
             pression.

I think this started with openssh-4.4, ie. with openssh < 4.4, this used to work.

[ebuild   R   ] net-misc/openssh-4.4_p1-r5  USE="-X -X509 -chroot hpn -kerberos -ldap libedit -pam (-selinux) -skey -smartcard static tcpd" 0 kB 


alexander@blatt /dev/shm $ emerge --info
Portage 2.1.2_rc1-r2 (default-linux/x86/2006.1, gcc-4.1.1, glibc-2.5-r0, 2.6.18-suspend2.045 i686)
=================================================================
System uname: 2.6.18-suspend2.045 i686 Intel(R) Celeron(R) M processor         1.50GHz
Gentoo Base System version 1.12.6
Last Sync: Thu, 02 Nov 2006 16:20:01 +0000
ccache version 2.4 [enabled]
app-admin/eselect-compiler: [Not Present]
dev-java/java-config: 1.3.7, 2.0.30
dev-lang/python:     2.4.3-r4
dev-python/pycrypto: 2.0.1-r5
dev-util/ccache:     2.4-r6
dev-util/confcache:  [Not Present]
sys-apps/sandbox:    1.2.18.1
sys-devel/autoconf:  2.13, 2.60
sys-devel/automake:  1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r2, 1.10
sys-devel/binutils:  2.17
sys-devel/gcc-config: 1.3.14
sys-devel/libtool:   1.5.22
virtual/os-headers:  2.6.17-r1
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86 ~x86"
AUTOCLEAN="yes"
CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu"
CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/3.5/env /usr/kde/3.5/share/config /usr/kde/3.5/shutdown /usr/share/X11/xkb /usr/share/config"
CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/env.d /etc/env.d/java/ /etc/gconf /etc/java-config/vms/ /etc/revdep-rebuild /etc/terminfo"
CXXFLAGS="-O2 -mtune=pentium-m -pipe -fomit-frame-pointer"
DISTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/distfiles"
EMERGE_DEFAULT_OPTS="--alphabetical"
FEATURES="autoconfig buildpkg ccache collision-protect distlocks metadata-transfer sandbox sfperms strict"
GENTOO_MIRRORS="        http://mirrors.sec.informatik.tu-darmstadt.de/gentoo/  http://ftp-stud.fht-esslingen.de/pub/Mirrors/gentoo/     ftp://ftp.tu-clausthal.de/pub/linux/gentoo/     http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo/       ftp://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo         http://distfiles.gentoo.org/ "
LANG="de_DE.UTF-8"
LINGUAS="de"
PKGDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/packages"
PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS="--recursive --links --safe-links --perms --times --compress --force --whole-file --delete --delete-after --stats --timeout=180 --exclude=/distfiles --exclude=/local --exclude=/packages"
PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/build"
PORTDIR="/Gentoo/Portage/tree"
PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/Gentoo/Portage/local-tree/misc"
SYNC="rsync://rsync.de.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage"
USE="x86 alsa berkdb bitmap-fonts cli cracklib crypt dlloader dri elibc_glibc esd fortran gdbm gnome gstreamer hal iconv input_devices_evdev input_devices_keyboard input_devices_mouse isdnlog kdeenablefinal kdehiddenvisibility kernel_linux libedit libg++ libnotify linguas_de ncurses nls nptl nptlonly pcre perl ppds pppd python readline reflection session spl ssl tcpd truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev unicode userland_GNU video_cards_fbdev video_cards_vesa video_cards_vga video_cards_via xorg zlib"
Unset:  CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, MAKEOPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS
Comment 1 Jakub Moc (RETIRED) gentoo-dev 2006-11-02 14:03:45 UTC

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 153854 ***