Hi, I'm using rsync 2.4.5-1 with rsh between a RedHat Linux 6.1 machines and an RH v6.2 machine. Both Intel-based. One machine is in Sydney and one in Melbourne. Intermittent failure doing nightly rsync of 2Gb of data files across a frame relay link. Normally completes in an hour or an hour and a half depending on how much data has been keyed during the day. I normally run it as a cron job, but tonight ran it manually and received this message: poll: protocol failure in circuit setup unexpected EOF in read-timeout Some nights the transfer completes, but sometimes it doesn't. Running it under cron there is no error message � it just terminates. So it may be the same problem as indicated in the protocol failure message � or it may not. It could be different problems every night. The frame relay link works reasonably well for telnet, email and samba traffic � maybe rsync is just overloading it. I've tried �timeout=1800 and �timeout=300 as well. Should I try reducing the speed? Try �-blocking-io ? Use 2.4.6? If anyone has any advice I'd be pleased to receive it. Thanks in advance, John Leach
