scp : samll tips ( error : bash: scp: command not found )

When I try to copy a file over scp command , I’ve faced the following error.

CentOS6-1# /usr/bin/scp aa.tgz hattori@192.168.0.100: hattori@192.168.0.100's password: bash: scp: command not found lost connection #

The reason is openssh-clients have not been installed on the remote machine.

To copy files over scp , openssh-clients needs to be installed on both machines.

I didn’t know that…

CentOS6-2 machine has not had openssh-clients for sure.

CentOS6-1# rpm -qa | grep openssh-client openssh-clients-5.3p1-81.el6.x86_64

CentOS6-2#rpm -qa | grep openssh-clients CentOS6-2#

To solve this , install openssh-clients on CentOS6-2 machine.

CentOS6-2 # yum install -y openssh-clients