Errors when trying to SCP (list directories for Panther OS X)

As soon as I get connected to OS X Panther with WinSCP it gives directory error listings:

Unexpected directory listing line "drwxr-xr-x 19 ckizer ckizer 646 17 Jul 07:30 .".
Operation aborted


Here is my listing with SSH:

[Court-Kizers-Computer:/Users/ckizer] root# ls -al
total 48
drwxr-xr-x 19 ckizer ckizer 646 17 Jul 07:30 .
drwxrwxr-t 6 root wheel 204 25 Jun 00:56 ..
-rw-r--r-- 1 ckizer ckizer 3 25 Jun 00:37 .CFUserTextEncoding
-rwxr-xr-x 1 ckizer ckizer 12292 17 Jul 07:30 .DS_Store
drwx------ 2 ckizer ckizer 68 16 Jul 21:37 .Trash
-rw------- 1 ckizer ckizer 8 25 Jun 08:27 .bash_history
drwxr-xr-x 2 ckizer ckizer 68 1 Jul 01:19 .java
drwxr-xr-x 4 ckizer ckizer 136 13 Jul 18:53 .jpi_cache
drwxr-xr-x 3 ckizer ckizer 102 1 Jul 18:59 .mplayer
drwx------ 3 ckizer ckizer 102 5 Jul 19:54 .ssh
drwxr-xr-x 6 ckizer ckizer 204 16 Jul 21:37 Desktop
drwx------ 14 ckizer ckizer 476 16 Jul 21:37 Documents
drwx------ 38 ckizer ckizer 1292 12 Jul 19:20 Library
drwx------ 3 ckizer ckizer 102 25 Jun 00:37 Movies
drwx------ 52 ckizer ckizer 1768 15 Jul 00:55 Music
drwxrwxrwx 4 ckizer ckizer 136 2 Jul 23:05 Myriad Pro
drwx------ 104 ckizer ckizer 3536 16 Jul 04:04 Pictures
drwxr-xr-x 4 ckizer ckizer 136 25 Jun 00:37 Public
drwxr-xr-x 5 ckizer ckizer 170 25 Jun 00:37 Sites

Can you fix your program to allow it to work properly

Please contact me via email.

Date format in your listing is not compatible with WinSCP. It expectes standard english format like 'Jul 17 07:30' instead of yours '17 Jul 07:30'. Try to change this or use SFTP, which does not have this kind of problems.

I have a similar error when trying to connect to a machine (socrates.icsl.ucla.edu, 128.97.90.195, SunOS socrates 5.5.1 Generic_103640-40 sun4u sparc SUNW,Ultra-2), but the date seems to be ok in my case:

Unexpected directory listing line "drwxr-xr-x 32 iseli 4096 Jul 24 12:45 .".
Operation aborted

I also heard, that if a banner or welcome message is displayed, this could be the problem. Or is it the prompt which asks for the terminal type?
With ssh I get:

Last login: Thu Jul 24 12:43:41 2003 from user-11205dn.dsl

******************************************************************************
socrates Solaris 2.5.1
******************************************************************************

You have mail.

Hello iseli, welcome to socrates.

Please confirm (or change) your terminal type.
TERM = (xterm)
Erase set to Backspace
stty crt -tabs
iseli@socrates[+31]

THANKS

I forgot to add the log to my previous message:
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. WinSCP Version 3.1.0 (Build 165)
. Login time: Monday, July 28, 2003 6:27:17 AM
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. Session name: iseli@socrates
. Host name: socrates (Port: 22)
. User name: iseli (Password: Yes, Key file: No)
. Transfer Protocol: SCP
. SSH protocol version: 2; Compression: No
. Agent forwarding: No; TIS/CryptoCard: No; KI: Yes
. Ciphers: aes,blowfish,3des,WARN,des; Ssh2DES: No
. Ping interval: 0 sec (0 = off); Timeout: 15 sec
. SSH Bugs: A,A,A,A,A,A,A,
. Proxy: none
. Return code variable: Autodetect; Lookup user groups: Yes
. Shell: /bin/bash, EOL: 0
. Local directory: default, Remote directory: home, Update: No, Cache: Yes
. Clear aliases: Yes, Unset nat.vars: Yes, Resolve symlinks: Yes
. Alias LS: Yes, Ign LS warn: Yes, Scp1 Comp: Yes
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. Looking up host "socrates"
. Connecting to 128.97.90.195 port 22
. Server version: SSH-1.5-1.2.31
. We claim version: SSH-1.5-PuTTY-Local: Jul 14 2003 13:14:02
. Using SSH protocol version 1
. Received public keys
. Host key fingerprint is:
. 1024 38:83:c3:dc:3e:de:66:b3:7e:75:8e:5e:12:97:e5:de
. Encrypted session key
. AES not supported in SSH1, skipping
. Using Blowfish encryption
. Trying to enable encryption...
. Initialised Blowfish encryption
. Installing CRC compensation attack detector
. Successfully started encryption
. Sent username "iseli"
. Sending password with camouflage packets
. Sent password
. Authentication successful
. Started session
. --------------------------------------------------------------------------
. Using SCP protocol
. Doing startup conversation with host.
. Skipping host startup message (if any).
> echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0
. Detecting variable containing return code of last command.
. Trying "$status".
> echo "$status" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0
. Trying "$?".
> echo "$?" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0"
< 0
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0
. Return code variable "$?" selected.
. Clearing all aliases.
> unalias "echo" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "pwd" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "cd" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "ls" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "groups" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "scp" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "rm" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "mv" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "mkdir" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "chmod" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "chgrp" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "chown" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "unset" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "unalias" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "alias" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "ln" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unalias "%s" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
. Clearing national user variables.
> unset "LANG" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LANGUAGE" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LC_CTYPE" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LC_COLLATE" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LC_MONETARY" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LC_NUMERIC" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LC_TIME" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LC_MESSAGES" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "LC_ALL" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
> unset "HUMAN_BLOCKS" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:1
. Aliasing LS to display file group.
> alias ls="ls -g" ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0
. Looking up current user groups.
> groups ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< alwan
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0
. Following groups found:
. alwan
. Getting current directory name.
> pwd ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< /u1/icsl/iseli
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0
. Listing current directory.
> ls -la ; echo "WinSCP: this is end-of-file:$?"
< total 18972
< drwxr-xr-x 32 iseli 4096 Jul 24 12:45 .
< drwxr-xr-x 11 root 4096 Nov 28 2000 ..
< -rw-r--r-- 1 iseli 22314 Jul 15 15:05 .RealNetworks_RealMediaSDK_60
< -rw-r--r-- 1 iseli 419 Jul 15 15:05 .RealNetworks_RealPlayer_60
< -rw------- 1 iseli 372 Apr 24 10:53 .TTauthority
< -rw------- 1 iseli 400 Jul 21 19:05 .Xauthority
< -rw-r----- 1 iseli 3459 Mar 29 2000 .Xdefaults
< -rwxr----- 1 iseli 1690 Mar 29 2000 .Xinitrc

............... more files here ............

< drwxrwxr-x 2 iseli 4096 Jul 7 11:43 public
< drwxr-xr-x 2 iseli 4096 Mar 5 16:58 tmp
< drwxr-xr-x 10 iseli 4096 May 21 2002 www
< WinSCP: this is end-of-file:0
* (ECommand) Error listing directory "/u1/icsl/iseli".
* Unexpected directory listing line "drwxr-xr-x 32 iseli 4096 Jul 24 12:45 .".
* Operation aborted
. Startup conversation with host finished.

markusiseli wrote:

Unexpected directory listing line "drwxr-xr-x 32 iseli 4096 Jul 24 12:45 .".
Operation aborted

There is group name missing in your listing. Read Requirements. Try also SFTP.

Thanks for the reply. :D

No sftp on our server though.
Saw that in bash the command ls -al does not list the group. It should rather be ls -alg. But this is our configuration, since 'man ls' says that ls -l should give the long format (including the group name).

Tried ksh, success, - though copying does not work:
Copying: Command failed with return code 127.
scp is called, but we have only scp2 installed, so I made a symbolic link scp to scp2. Now the error is:
Command failed with return code 1. Guess we have to do some changes on our machines... :roll:

Markus

Anonymous wrote:

Tried ksh, success, - though copying does not work:
Copying: Command failed with return code 127.
scp is called, but we have only scp2 installed, so I made a symbolic link scp to scp2. Now the error is:
Command failed with return code 1. Guess we have to do some changes on our machines... :roll:

WinSCP cannot use scp2. You should install SFTP.

For list of reasons WinSCP cannot parse directory listing and possible resolutions, see documentation.