[gentoo-user] Emerge sync says it's failing, but succeeds anyway. What's up with that?

[Kevin O'Gorman]

Every time I "emerge sync" I get pretty much the same first few lines:

> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)
> Welcome to cockatoo.gentoo.org

>  
> Server Address : 65.19.163.230
> Contact Name   : 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Hardware       : 2 x Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.80GHz, 1024MB RAM
>
> ... [and it goes on at some length to sync up just fine] 

Everything works well, but the top two lines make me wonder if I'm doing something wasteful.
Clues, anyone?

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Kevin O'Gorman, PhD