Hi all, I've been running rsync successfully from cron jobs for the last six months across a local network. The cron jobs are very simple. They run rsync on a client machine, connect to an rsync server on a server machine (no ssh or rsh involved), and copy files from the server to the client. That's all. There are several jobs, one for each directory on the server, and between them they copy more than 300MB of data between the machines and they have done it perfectly every day for the last six months.
Today one of the jobs started failing when it ran the following command on the client machine: $ rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::gsh/* . rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(201) The only significant change I can see is that the 'gsh' directory on the server now contains 2380 files, whereas it only contained 2 files yesterday. Of course it might be something else, something different from the number of files in the directory, but to check this out I tried: $ rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::gsh $ rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]::gsh/*EFL . which successfully lists all 2380 files in the 'gsh' directory and then copied all the files ending with EFL from the server to the client. I tried upgrading rsync to 2.6.0 on both machines but the problem persists. After reading the FAQ and browsing the mailing list I tried --blocking-io and --no-blocking-io but the problem remained. Does anyone have any ideas? Thanks for your help. Jon Hirst --- Below are the gory details for those who want to try debugging: --- Server Machine: Linux 2.4.7-10 Redhat 6 rsync 2.4.2 originally rsync 2.6.0 after upgrade rsync built from source with ./configure; make; make install --- Client Machine: Linux 2.4.20-9smp Redhat 9 rsync 2.5.2 originally rsync 2.6.0 after upgrade rsync built from source with ./configure; make; make install --- Verbose output from the failing command: $ rsync -vvvvvv [EMAIL PROTECTED]::gsh/* . opening tcp connection to sdnvpn port 873 Password: (Client) Protocol versions: remote=27, negotiated=27 rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=201): entered rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(201) _exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=201): about to call exit(12) --- I haven't been able to get any verbose output from the server log. The best I can do is short summary lines. All I see in the log are reports of success when the client tries to list the directory and nothing at all when the client tries to copy the files: 2004/01/06 16:45:35 [29323] rsync on gsh from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (10.0.3.247) 2004/01/06 16:45:39 [29323] wrote 38912 bytes read 100 bytes total size 245595674 --- I have verbose output from a command that lists the directory on the server, but the mailing list complains because it is over 400KB of text. Email me if you are interested in a copy. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
