<guess> Well, I'm no rsync expert, but have you tried compiling rsync from the same sources on each machine? Could be a version mis-match... </guess> Gabe On Wed, Jul 18, 2001 at 03:47:41PM -0500, Ben Kochie wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > > ok.. this is a _really_ wierd problem.. I'm running a NetBSD 1.4 web > server, and I am trying to setup an rsyncd server on it so i can mirror > off the data to our shiny new penguin computing box. but whenever I try > and start the rsync session from the linux box, i get this message on the > NetBSD server. > > Jul 18 15:17:49 silver rsyncd[13318]: rsync on blah/ from systems@(host) > Jul 18 15:17:49 silver rsyncd[13318]: transfer interrupted (code 3) at > main.c(263) > > and on the client end I get this: > > $ rsync -azrvl --progress --password-file=/root/pass --progress > systems at silver::blah/ /web > receiving file list ... push_dir rsyncd: No such file or directory (3) > unexpected EOF in read_timeout > > here's what my rsyncd.conf looks like: > [blah] > path = /web > auth users = systems > secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets > > > I have no idea what the heck is causing this.. I tried setting up a > similar rsync server on the linux box.. and I got the same messages when I > try and sync from the netbsd server.. but when I run the same exact > command on another linux box.. it works fine.. ARG! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Gabe Turner gabe at msi.umn.edu SGI Origin Systems Administrator, University of Minnesota Supercomputing Institute for Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation www.msi.umn.edu ------------------------------------------------------------------------