Dear JBG, Thank you for your help. I indeed had some package being sourced in my .cshrc file of the remote machine. Everything works fine now!
MvG Arjen ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Arjen van der Meer Sterrenkundig Instituut "Anton Pannekoek" room: H 3.42 Kruislaan 403 phone: +31-205925097 1098 SJ Amsterdam email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] The Netherlands http: www.astro.uva.nl/~ameer ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ On Tue, 25 May 2004, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote: > On Tue, 2004-05-25 16:35:46 +0200, Arjen van der Meer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > wrote in message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > > rsync -a /home/ameer/midastests remotemachine:/home/ameer/midastests > > > > protocol version mismatch - is your shell clean? > > (see the rsync man page for an explanation) > > rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at compat.c(62) > > So it seems the scripts executed upon login (.bashrc, .profile, > .bash_profile, ...) send some output (that they better didn't send). > > Please try: > > $ ssh remotemachine true > this_file_should_be_empty > > If the file "this_file_should_be_empty" contains *anything*, you'd look > at your scripts and comment those outputting commands. > > MfG, JBG > > -- > Jan-Benedict Glaw [EMAIL PROTECTED] . +49-172-7608481 > "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg > fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier Bürger" | im Internet! | im Irak! > ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA)); > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
