On Sun, March 1, 2015 11:08 am, Jonathan Billings wrote: > On Sun, Mar 01, 2015 at 10:58:30AM -0600, Valeri Galtsev wrote: >> Why "slash": /.thunderbird in case of your example? Because if you do >> not >> specify absolute path beginning with / the ssh daemon prepends your >> relative path with its `pwd` it runs in, and its `pwd` is "/") > > I'm not sure I understand what you're saying here... > > Are you saying that if I run 'scp remotehost:.bashrc ." it will copy > /.bashrc from remotehost, regardless of whether my $HOME on remotehost > is /home/username ? > Well, I was wrong, and somebody already corrected the stupid idiot (me). I forgot that the worker process is started as user=remote user with pwd= user's home directory. So what I said about absolute path _necessary_ it total nonsense. ;-( I guess I need more coffee in the morning on Sunday... Valeri ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ Valeri Galtsev Sr System Administrator Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics Kavli Institute for Cosmological Physics University of Chicago Phone: 773-702-4247 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++