On 5/11/2010 8:19 AM, Josh Malone wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:14:54 -0500, Nick Bright<o...@valnet.net> wrote: > >> Let me start off by saying this: I know what I'm doing. >> >> I've been running backuppc for about two years on two servers, backing >> up about 25 servers (mix of windows and linux). >> >> This is the ONLY machine I've ever had this problem with that wasn't SSH >> > >> authentication problems, and what's worse is that it worked for almost a >> > >> year before it stopped working. I'm convinced it's something about the >> shell or environment of the client system, but I've been trying to >> figure this out since last *November* and I'm just not getting anywhere >> with it. Every single hit just says "your SSH keys are messed up", but >> they most certainly are /not/ messed up, as evidenced below. >> >> All of the configuration is the same as my other linux servers. I can >> find absolutely nothing preventing this from working, but it fails every >> > >> time! >> > <diag info snipped> > > Hi. I run BackupPC on RHEL5 and I've never had the slightest problems. > That said, here's all I can think of: > > Have you checked the 'messages' and 'secure' logs on the target server? > Are your target servers (the backed-up hosts) also running CentOS5? > Thank you for taking the time to reply.
Yes, they don't say anything at all. No rejections or failures or successes. Just blank. The target server is also CentOS5. > I would try running the actual rsync-over-ssh command as the backuppc user > on the backuppc server: > > usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root TargetServer /usr/bin/rsync --server \ > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links \ > --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --port=38271 \ > --ignore-times . / > > And see if you get anything from that command or in the logs of the target > server. > Nothing at all. No errors, no success messages. Just blank. > If all else fails, try starting sshd in the foreground (sshd -D) on the > target server and watch the connection and process start up. > > -Josh > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
