I am facing a tricky situation here. I have a java based application that tries to scp remote machines to copy certain files. While performing those tasks , I am finding the below error message from the application side.
scp protocol error mtime.sec not present
But when I manually try to scp from the server to endpoint machine, I am able to do it without issues.
The command I am using for manual testing is scp localfile user@hostname:/tmp/
I am not sure of the error message mtime.sec is not present . Does anyone can throw some lights here. I couldn't find useful info from web, Any experts thoughts would help a lot.
As SCP is working normally using manual process, I am not sure there is something wrong with SCP.
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I've got the same issue. It worked for me if I scp to ubuntu 12.04. When I did that to ubuntu 14.04, it failed with same message.
I wrote the scp code based on this example http://www.jcraft.com/jsch/examples/ScpTo.java.html. I guess you too.
If I remove the whitespace after the "T" in the following line, it'll work. Change:
command="T "+(_lfile...
to
command="T"+(_lfile...
Either do that or set ptimestamp = false