OT - sftp

[Bob Rasmussen]

Try connecting with ssh instead of sftp, all else being equal. Does it let 
you? Do you get any messages or diagnostics?

On the server you're trying to connect to, can you see any syslog entries 
showing failed attempts?

On Fri, 22 Nov 2013, scooter6 at gmail.com wrote:

> We've had several night time scripts that use SFTP to send files to
> overnight
> All has worked fine until this morning - I get email confirmations and they
> all had
> "Couldn't read packet: Connection reset by peer"
>
> So I tried to manually connect and got the same thing.
> I then used FileZilla on my PC and connected without issue to one of my
> vendors who we use username/password with - no keys involved
>
> So I called him - he can see me login from FileZilla and from my server -
> but when connecting from my server is shows I immediately logout too....
>
> Again, this has been working for years up until last night - I have not
> installed any other packages, did a full server reboot, don't see any
> errors in log files, etc.
>
> Any idea what would be causing this?  I double checked permissions and
> don't see anything that's glaring...
> I can't even sftp to localhost...I get the same thing....
> I removed localhost from known_hosts in ~/.ssh directory
> then   sftp localhost     I get the standard 'The authenticity of localhost
> can't be established blah blah blah....Are you sure you want to continue
> connecting?  I type yes and get the same
> Can't read packet: Connection reset by peer....
> But I do get our standard FTP disclaimer so I know it's "connecting' after
> I put 'yes'
> It also re-adds the localhost to known_hosts file - so that helped me
> confirm it doesn't appear to be permissions....???
>
> Really baffled here.....out of ideas where to look.....
>
> Any one run across this before?
>
> Thanks
> Scott
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....Bob Rasmussen,   President,   Rasmussen Software, Inc.

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