On Sat, 05 May 2007, Benjamin Staffin wrote: > I'm running into what appears to be the exact same problem as Samrat. > See comments inline below... > > >> >Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.7.254 /usr/bin/rsync > > ^^ > >That should turn off X11 forwarding (not globally, not as default for the > >user, but rather on a per-connection basis). That's perfectly fine as it is. > > > >> >--server --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group --devices > >> >--links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . / > > I can't speak for Samrat, but in my case the distribution is Debian > "Sarge", root's shell is bash, there appears to be nothing of interest > on the client system in root's dotfiles or the system profiles (all > are untouched from the distribution defaults, in fact). Root does not > have a ~/.ssh/config, and nothing related to X is enabled in the > system ssh config files. Running ldd on the only binary executed in > root's dotfiles (/usr/bin/mesg) tells me it's not linked against X11 > (unsurprisingly). Oh, and nothing I can find is setting $DISPLAY. > > I feel silly for failing to track this down, but I seem to be > completely stumped. Does anybody else have thoughts on how to debug > this?
Nothing in that ssh line above *needs* X. If you ssh by hand from the backuppc server to the client, and say 'echo $DISPLAY' what do you get ? Cheers, Andy! ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by DB2 Express Download DB2 Express C - the FREE version of DB2 express and take control of your XML. No limits. Just data. Click to get it now. http://sourceforge.net/powerbar/db2/ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
