Everything worked, files transferred fine however a -vvv reveals that the process did not end clean. The error is not seen with -v or even -vv. Any insight? rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26, running on Solaris 8.
Write failed flushing stdout buffer. write stdout: Broken pipe rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at main.c(925) _exit_cleanup(code=255, file=main.c, line=925): about to call exit(255) Full -vvv output mach9$/opt/rsync/bin/rsync -e ssh -vvv admin@mach3:/home1/admin/rsyncdir/* 052002/mach3 opening connection using ssh mach3 -l admin rsync --server --sender -vvv . "/home1/admin/rsyncdir/*" server_sender starting pid=23230 make_file(1,datefile) expand file_list to 4000 bytes, did move recv_file_name(datefile) make_file(1,unamefile) recv_file_name(unamefile) received 2 names recv_file_list done get_local_name count=2 052002/mach3 generator starting pid=27427 count=2 recv_files(2) starting recv_generator(datefile,0) send_file_list done sending sums for 0 send_files starting recv_generator(unamefile,1) sending sums for 1 generate_files phase=1 send_files(0,/home1/admin/rsyncdir/datefile) send_files mapped /home1/admin/rsyncdir/datefile of size 29 recv_files(datefile) recv mapped datefile of size 29 datefile calling match_sums /home1/admin/rsyncdir/datefile built hash table hash search b=700 len=29 match at 0 last_match=0 j=0 len=29 n=0 done hash search sending file_sum got file_sum renaming .datefile.ThaWK1 to datefile false_alarms=0 tag_hits=1 matches=1 sender finished /home1/admin/rsyncdir/datefile send_files(1,/home1/admin/rsyncdir/unamefile) send_files mapped /home1/admin/rsyncdir/unamefile of size 78 recv_files(unamefile) recv mapped unamefile of size 78 unamefile calling match_sums /home1/admin/rsyncdir/unamefile built hash table hash search b=700 len=78 match at 0 last_match=0 j=0 len=78 n=0 done hash search sending file_sum got file_sum renaming .unamefile.UhaWK1 to unamefile false_alarms=0 tag_hits=1 matches=1 sender finished /home1/admin/rsyncdir/unamefile recv_files phase=1 send_files phase=1 generate_files phase=2 send files finished total: matches=2 tag_hits=2 false_alarms=0 data=0 recv_files finished wrote 60 bytes read 1242 bytes 868.00 bytes/sec total size is 107 speedup is 0.80 Write failed flushing stdout buffer. write stdout: Broken pipe rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at main.c(925) _exit_cleanup(code=255, file=main.c, line=925): about to call exit(255) Brian D. Hamm, CISSP, CCNA Network Design & Implementation (o) 727-939-3080 (c) 727-424-4384 (f) 240-266-7185 (e) [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html