It appears that the command you show is not a complete copy/paste job. When you changed "backup.amlaw.com" or whatever it was to "backup.domain.com", you also removed one of the colons between that and "jspfsp", as the only time rsync does a chroot is as a server. A chroot failure is almost invariably an erroneous "path =" line in the rsyncd.conf, and since it works otherwise, we know your OS can do chroot. Check the directory named under the "[jspfsp]" entry in your rsyncd.conf.
Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services desk:3032734776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am doing this to rsync a file: rsync -avz /usr/local/websphere/appserver/hosts/default_host/jsp/servers/includes/file1 .txt backup.domain.com:jspfsp >> /var/log/rsync_backup.log I get these error: @ERROR: chroot failed rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (34 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) I am rsyncing several folders between these two servers with no problem. But now I keep getting this rsyncing a single script. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html