Package: rsync
Version: 2.6.9-2etch2
Severity: grave
Justification: renders package unusable


Sanitised expect log from backup script...

spawn /usr/bin/rsync -bv x...@www.www:~/dbbackup/* /home/data/xx/dbbackup/
Password: 

insecure -e option not allowed.
This account is restricted by rssh.
Allowed commands: sftp rsync

If you believe this is in error, please contact your system administrator.

*** glibc detected *** malloc(): memory corruption: 0x08051bc8 ***
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) 
[receiver=3.0.3]
total 5172

note please that the -e option is not used! 

My workround is to revert to rsync from oldstable:

spawn /usr/bin/rsync -bv x...@www:~/dbbackup/* /home/data/xxx/dbbackup/
Password: 
xxx.yyy

sent 9030 bytes  received 709948 bytes  287591.20 bytes/sec
total size is 1972930  speedup is 2.74


-- System Information:
Debian Release: 5.0
  APT prefers stable
  APT policy: (990, 'stable'), (500, 'oldstable')
Architecture: i386 (i686)

Kernel: Linux 2.6.26-1-686 (SMP w/1 CPU core)
Locale: LANG=en_GB.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_GB.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash

Versions of packages rsync depends on:
ii  libacl1                       2.2.47-2   Access control list shared library
ii  libc6                         2.7-18     GNU C Library: Shared libraries
ii  libpopt0                      1.14-4     lib for parsing cmdline parameters
ii  lsb-base                      3.2-20     Linux Standard Base 3.2 init scrip

rsync recommends no packages.

Versions of packages rsync suggests:
ii  openssh-client                1:5.1p1-5  secure shell client, an rlogin/rsh
ii  openssh-server                1:5.1p1-5  secure shell server, an rshd repla

-- no debconf information



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