rsync-ssh problem

2006-11-16 Thread Paul Trevethan
I am having a real nightmare getting automated login with ssh to work; hoping someone can guide me. I am running Ubuntu 6.10. I have a main machine (called greywolf) which has a partition for my /home on it. I am doing backups to an extrnal usb drive attached to a Linksys NSLU2 (called slug) runni

Re: rsync ssh problem...

2004-02-04 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Feb 04, 2004 at 03:26:19PM +, Paul Simpson wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rsync --rsh="ssh -lpaul" clinton:: > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > rsync: server sent "" rather than greeting It's probably your ssh setup outputting something. Try this: #!/bin/sh out=`ssh -lpaul clinton

rsync ssh problem...

2004-02-04 Thread Paul Simpson
Hi all, I keep getting the following error when trying to use ssh: (with rsync 2.5.7) [EMAIL PROTECTED] root]# rsync --rsh="ssh -lpaul" clinton:: [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: rsync: server sent "" rather than greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1043)