OT - sftp

[scooter6 at gmail.com]

Apparently there were some updates to some packages that needed to be done
- after I ran them, all seems right in the world again
thanks
Scott


On Fri, Nov 22, 2013 at 5:19 PM, Bob Rasmussen <ras at anzio.com> wrote:

> 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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