Well, Robert, at least you're to a consistent state from which maybe the more capable people on this list may be able to help you. I'm ccing the list, as I don't see anything I can help with. You might try it again with -vvv on the client side, to generate more detail. As it looks like it's dying in connection setup, the output shouldn't be cluttered with a mass of transfer detail.
Tim Conway conwayDOTtimATphilipsDOTcomREVERSETHENAMEORDER 303.682.4917 office, 303.921.0301 cell Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC 1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D Longmont, CO 80501 Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, caesupport2 on AIM "There are some who call me.... Tim?" Robert Brooks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 09/18/2002 10:07 AM To: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS@AMEC cc: Subject: rsync-2.5.5 hangs in client-server mode Classification: > Such behaviour has been seen. In some iterations of rsync, running from > cron, on some systems, it would detect STDIO as a socket and try to run as > a daemon. I don't know when that was, or what platforms, but your version > is way downlevel. There are a lot of reasons that the current version is > 2.5.5, and reliablilty issues are among them. See how it looks with BOTH > ENDS running a current version of the utility. > > Good luck. Thank you for your reply to my earlier note about rsync-2.4.6-3 on Red Hat 7.1. I took your advice and installed rsync-2.5.5 on all three systems, taking care to be sure that the older versions were actually replaced. Unfortunately, the client-server setup still hangs, but there were differences: 1 - The error message is now two lines long: io timeout after 60 seconds - exiting rsync error: timeout in data send/receive (code 30) at io.c(85) 2 - There is now one line of output in the file where stdout is redirected: opening tcp connection to backbone.byron.home port 873 3 - On the server side, there are now two lines entered in rsyncd.log (the log file): 2002/09/18 09:12:25 [1365] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (22 bytes read so far) 2002/09/18 09:12:25 [1365] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150) Here is the output from the command rsync --version: rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. As before, after the timeout, I was able to run the script from the root console without any problems. The log created on the client side was greatly enhanced, a very nice improvement. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html