On 25/06/09 11:15, Felix Farcas wrote:

> debug1: Sending command: scp -v -t /home/felix/
> 
> Starting nmap 3.70 ( http://www.insecure.org/nmap/ ) at 2009-06-25 12:06

If that is a cut&paste, the above line is most likel;y the culprit.
"scp" assumes a totally-transparent channel, any messages from shell
init scripts etc will mess up the protocol (the "banner" file
(/etc/issue.net) is ok, that is transferred via a different mechanism).

try
ssh -l user host /bin/true
and  fix your (remove) environment for this to not return any output..

cheers
jan