Re: Communication problem with rsync-2.6.0

2004-04-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 12:45:18PM -0400, Tim Conway wrote: > The second problem is that you have put "-e rsh" after filespecs, thus > having it interpreted as such. Not necessarily. Modern option parsers indulge in option reordering unless told not to (for example, by setting POSIXLY_CORRECT in

Re: Communication problem with rsync-2.6.0

2004-04-05 Thread Tim Conway
The first problem is that you're attempting to use a remote transport on a local transfer. The second problem is that you have put "-e rsh" after filespecs, thus having it interpreted as such. What you have asked rsync to do is to put the contents of "source/", "dest/", and the object "-e", in t

Re: Communication problem with rsync-2.6.0

2004-04-05 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, Apr 05, 2004 at 01:02:44PM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > it was coused by command rsync -r source/ dest/ -e rsh That command can't cause the error you mentioned since there is no host specified on it. I assume you removed a "host:" from either the source or dest, right? (i.e. using a