[scponly] Intermittently working sftp

[Kaleb Pederson]

On Sunday 14 June 2009 08:40:29 pm Whit Blauvelt wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> Here are two sessions, one right after the other. The first worked, the
> second failed. How do I diagnose this intermittent failure? This is for the
> current scponlyc, compiled from source, running on an Ubuntu Intrepid
> server. I've got a similar setup on a Ubuntu Hardy server that's been
> working fine in production for a year. What can be the problem here? It's
> failing more often than working. 

That's an odd situation.  The only thing that might help diagnose the problem is if you can grab a log of system calls with strace.  The logs may help uncover something different in the way the system calls are happening.

There's an entry on the FAQ that discusses the steps you'll need to take.

--Kaleb