I've seen this error on HP-UX systems as well. I spent a couple hours picking through the source trying to track it down, but so far no luck.
What I have discovered: + It's still broken as of last night's CVS version + It only seems to happen when sending files from an HP-UX system (receiving files on HP-UX works OK) + The remote system can be either HP-UX or Linux (and probably others), which suggests that it's a sender-side issue + It only happens when using the "--owner" or "--group" options (both implied by "-a" or "--archive") + It does happen when using those options as a non-root user (when their action would normally be ignored). It also happens when sending the files to root on the destination. + The return status of the wait_process() call appears to be normal (i.e. not obviously mangled), but is nonzero. The actual value seems to be random. I plan to look at this more, but hopefully this info might help someone else track down this elusive HP-UX problem. -- Steve Bonds -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
