hi matt Thanks for the fast answer.
>Are you sure? Please post your daemon configuration and "ls -l" output >for the affected destination files. the destination files all belong to the rsyncd user as i made a chown -R rsyncd. on the whole destination directory tree. my daemon config looks like that: motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log pid file = /etc/rsyncd.pid syslog facility = syslog secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets use chroot = false strict modes = false *** some more directories *** [dyndns] comment = "a comment" path = /path/to/directory transfer logging = yes read only = no auth users = CWsync >The loss of the connection looks like a separate problem. See if there >is any information about what happened in the daemon's log file. >Running the client and daemon under strace might yield more information. the daemon log gives these error messages: ***** 2008/07/02 19:01:41 [25148] rsync: mkstemp "/admin/.searchip.php.XEcBaw" (in dyndns) failed: Permission denied (13) 2008/07/02 19:01:41 [25148] rsync: mkstemp "/admin/.set_access.php.d2eDSw" (in dyndns) failed: Permission denied (13) 2008/07/02 19:01:41 [25148] inflate returned -3 (91 bytes) 2008/07/02 19:01:41 [25148] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at token.c(421) [receiver=2.6.8] 2008/07/02 19:01:41 [25148] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (5574 bytes received so far) [generator] 2008/07/02 19:01:41 [25148] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(463) [generator=2.6.8] >Also, consider upgrading to a newer version of rsync on both sides. The >newest is 3.0.3. upgrading is almost impossible as it is in a productive environment of a big company and i don't wanna be responsible if the whole rsyncing breaks down. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/rsync%3A-failed-to-set-times-on-***-tp18242600p18254883.html Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html