On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 >From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> >To: Bruce Dobrin <dobrin at imageworks dot com> >Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:33:05 -0500 (EST) >Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
>On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Bruce Dobrin wrote: >> Hi, >> >> I have been using rsync via rsh (-e "rsh") for our general distributions >> for a for all of our windows and Linux machines ( 2000 of them) . on >> Upgrading from cygwin1.5.5 to 1.5.9, Rsync could no longer use rsh to >> rsync. >> >> I get : "rsh : unknown option -- server" >> I down graded the rsync2.6.0 from the cyg1.5.9 install to the 2.5.6 version >> from the cyg1.5.5 version and got the same problem. I restored the rsync to >> 2.6.0 and copied the rsh.exe from the inetutils-1.3.2-25 from the cyg1.5.5 >> install and rsync started working again. >> >> Is there a known bug or known workaround for using the most recent version >> of rsh ( from 1.3.2-26)? >> thanks. >> Bruce Dobrin >> >> example: rsync -rluzv -e "rsh" --timeout=100 --size-only >> matilda:/c/dist_and_install_files/dist/sysadm_general/ /c/ >> >> rsh : unknown option -- server ?> >WAG: check text/binary settings on the connection (e.g., does $CYGWIN >contain "nobinmode"?). Also check with ssh. >Igor >-- Igor, Thank you for answering. Using ssh works fine ( well, it works as well as rsync has ever worked anyway ;-) ). My $CYGWIN is a fairly standard : binmode tty ntsec ssh is not really an option for us though;our facility is locked down hard so internally we don't use ssh at all but depend on rsh.. I'd like to keep our rsh current though, but to keep it working I have had to replace the newer rsh with the older one... eventually I'm afraid this will bite me in the butt. should I talk to the rsync people? it looks like rsync is passing a switch "--server" that is being picked up incorrectly by the newer rsh and not the older one... ( if I type: BASH > rsh --server I get the same response: "rsh: unknown option -- server" ), Thanks for your continuing help Bruce--- Bruce Dobrin [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
