Hi Dave,
> > I get prompted for my password
>
> I don't know if you're complaining about the prompt or not, but that's
> entirely up to ssh; whatever ssh does to run any command will be the same
> here.
Hehe, no, I guess I should have mentioned that I did enter my password, and it
is correct ... That part seems to be working fine.
> > and rsync tells me its building the file list
> > then hangs. I noticed that if I don't specificy a path for rsync, it fails, so
> > I copied rsync from /usr/local/bin to /usr/bin (for whatever reason, rsync
> > couldn't find it in /usr/local/bin even though its in my path).
>
> Sshd doesn't use your own path on the remote machine, it has its own default.
> You can specify an explicit path to rsync on the client side with --rsync-path.
Oh, duh, i should have remembered that. I did use the --rsync-path paramter
with no success.
> > rsync will
> > just hang like that, not doing anything ... what am I doing wrong? The file
> > 'file3' is only 10 bytes!
>
> Ssh hanging is a known problem in some of the earlier 2.4.x series versions
> of rsync, although I don't think it 't happenned on such a small amount of
> data. Try it on rsync 2.4.6 if you're not. You also don't mention what
> operating system(s) you are using.
Hm. I am running rsync 2.4.6, with OpenSSH 2.3.0p1. Both boxes have this
config, and are running linux:
> I recently installed rsync on 2 linux boxes I have here.
This is RedHat 6.2, 2.2.17 kernel.
-e
