possible problem with scp/ssh/telnet

[Ed Greshko]

On 08/12/2012 03:40 PM, Paul Allen Newell wrote:
> Thanks for the prompt reply. I got the same message for telnet as I did for ssh and scp. And, as I re-read my email, I managed to not report that message (I actually did, but that was before I got a log message and it apparently got wiped out when I reworded from "nothing in /var/log/messages" to "I got something".
>
> I just powered my F16 box back on and did a ssh/telnet/scp. The message is
>
> +++
> [ssh,scp,telnet]: connect to host krazy port 22: Connection refused
> +++ 

That normally means that the port is open on the remote side (krazy being your cygwin host) but that the server is not running.

If you open a Cygwin terminal on krazy....what do you get when you type....

ssh localhost



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