On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:28 -0600, chuang liu wrote: > I am trying to transfer a file from a machine A to a machine B. I ran > a rsync deamon on machine B at a given port. Because there is a firewall > between these two machines, I opened the port on the firewall. Is this > enough to get rsync work through firewall? > > When I tried the transfer, I got the following error messages. > > my command: > rsync -a --copy-links localfile rsync:://me@<my > IP>:<port>/<module>/test.dat > > In the client side, the error messages are > > rsync: Unknown host > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151)
An rsync:// URL should have a single colon. Since you used two colons, rsync parsed the destination as the path "//me@<my IP>:<port>/<module>/test.dat" on the daemon on host "rsync", hence the "rsync: Unknown host" message. Get rid of the extra colon. Matt -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
