[KLUG Members] rsync command question

[Peter Buxton]

On Mon, May 05, 2003 at 09:04:55AM +0000, Jon Smitley wrote:

> user@Toast:/home/shared> rsync -v /home/shared user@Butter::/2g/syncdir
> 
> ERROR: The remote path must start with a module name not a /
> rsync error: error starting client_server protocol (code5) at
> main.c(923)

Okay, you need to specify the modules (think transport) when using :: as
a separator.

Run:

rsync user@Butter::

to list the modules on butter. Modules are: ftp, sambaftp, rsyncftp,
sambawww, cvs, e.g.

> user@Toast:/home/shared> rsync -v /home/shared user@Butter:/2g/syncdir

One colon in the destination makes rsync think you're using rsh as a
transport.

> Butter: Connection refused
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read su far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code12) at io.c(150)



> Question:  I have rsync "server" running on both machines, is this
> correct or should I have one of them disabled.

That should be fine. You just need rshd on the remote machine. Uh, are
you connecting to 'rsync --daemon', rshd or sshd? For ssh:

rsync -v -e "ssh -l user"

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