Re: unexpected EOF in read_timeout

[Dave Dykstra]

On Wed, May 30, 2001 at 02:05:33AM -0500, Phil Howard wrote:
> > I'm a novice at rsync, so I can't tell you all the details, but, in
> > general, the "unexpected EOF in read_timeout" (usually) means that
> > something not so good happened on the server side.  On what server I was
> > connecting to, I believe that the preprocessing by the server made some
> > watchdog on the server side decide that the process was dead -- it then
> > killed it, and then I got the error message.  I never proved this
> > completely.
> 
> I posted a while back with this problem and someone answered that the
> message existed in ssh and not in rsync.  I never verified it.

No, that's not correct.  That message is in rsync.  The message that you're
thinking about that is in ssh is
    Write failed: Cannot allocate memory
and that resulted in rsync printing out the "unexpected EOF" message, which
can come anytime the connection to the server is lost.

- Dave Dykstra