On Wed, Sep 20, 2000 at 12:33:11PM -0700, Felciano, Ramon wrote:
| I'm trying to evaluate rsync for doing web site publishing, and can't get
| basic inter-machine synchinh working. I keep getting a "permission denied"
| error. I thought this was probably a newbie question, probably config
| related, but I've scoured the mailing lists and it seems that most posts
| about this message haven't been answered. Is this an unusual error? Can
| someone suggest how to debug it?
|
| I've verified that I can rsh to the target machine, that both the target
| directory (/tmp) is world-writable, and that the source directory (/tmp) and
| files are world-readable. I've appended a log that demonstrates that I can
| rsh fine by hand, but it fails when I do it with rsync.
|
| I'm using version 2.4.6, "protocol version 24", running SunOS 5.7. As per
| the instructions, I have installed rsync on both machines, but there are no
| daemons or such running.
|
| Any suggestions?
|
| Thanks.
|
| Ramon M. Felciano
|
| [21]curie1:/tmp > rsh curie3
| Password:
| Last login: Wed Sep 20 11:37:53 from curie1.ingenuity
| Sun Microsystems Inc. SunOS 5.7 Generic October 1998
| [1]curie3:~ > ls -ld /tmp
| drwxrwxrwt 8 sys sys 1045 Sep 20 09:30 /tmp/
| [2]curie3:~ > exit
| logout
| Connection closed.
| [22]curie1:/tmp > rsync --rsh=/bin/rsh *.txt curie3:/tmp
| permission denied
| unexpected EOF in read_timeout
| [23]curie1:/tmp >
I'd guess rsh problems (see the "unexpected EOF in read_timeout"?
shouldn't happen if the server and client rsyncs are actually
talking). Try this:
rsh curie uptime
Does it work? (Then scrap rsh and use ssh - rsh is not secure).
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