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Comment by mholt | Hacker News Reader

Make Error Messages Great Again

(Sorry, I hate that it has a political reference, but it's really how I feel about this. How the heck is that error message supposed to mean anything to anyone?)

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Sometimes the message is different. I think it depends on the recipient server. Trying to scp to a dropbear ssh server on a router gives

   sh: /opt/libexec/sftp-server: not found
   scp: Connection closed

The -O resolution works.

Yeah, regardless of how one feels about the design decision to fail without fallback, the messaging seems like an oversight.

Yes, please and thanks. And I want a single line explaining how it is failing so I can copy paste it into Google and make the trivial fix. I don't want the beginning of a novel. Java was famous for dumping not only the relevant error message but it's entire family history since birth.

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