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...to specify absolute path to the directory you intend to rsync or scp. In your example remote directory quite likely does not exist, as your command is exact equivalent of this: scp -pr mlapier at 192.168.15.105:/.thunderbird . whereas you may want to have: scp -pr mlapier at 192.168.15.105:/home/remote_user_name/.thunderbird . 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 "/") Another way to specify remote user's home directory w...

On 02/26/15 19:45, Valeri Galtsev wrote: > > On Thu, February 26, 2015 6:34 pm, Mark LaPierre wrote: >> Hey all, >> >> I'm trying to copy configuration files from my old CentOS 6.6 32 bit >> machine to my new CentOS 6.6 64 bit machine. >> >> On my 32 bit machine: >> >> [mlapier at mushroom ~]$ ifconfig >> eth0 Link