While I am trying to connect to a remote system from terminal using sftp
sftp user@host.ip.address
connection is failing and a message coming
Received message too long < some long number >
I connect that machine frequently, can not understand what is causing the problem.
Maybe you have to do with a message (like welcoming message) popping up after the successful login. sftp fails to connect in this situation (see http://www.openssh.org/faq.html#2.9).
Try to ssh in the same server and see if any message pops up. It should be started from one of these file ~/.profile, ~/.bash_profile,~/.bashrc, or other shell initialization file. You can then comment out the respective line from there.
echo "some text"in my~/.bashrc. thanks. – sourav c. Nov 02 '13 at 08:14