Hi: Thanks a lot for your reponse. I put one colon when I ran the command, but typed two colons in the email.
I did a few more tests, and found some strange behaviors of rsync. If I put the address rsync://URL in the src, rsync works fine. But if I put it as the destination, rsync fails. If I use another format <hostname>::<module> for the destination, rsync works. ---------------------------- bash-2.05a$ rsync -v rsync://10.46.62.130:34913/silo/t4.dat what.dat what.dat wrote 81 bytes read 182 bytes 526.00 bytes/sec total size is 80 speedup is 0.30 bash-2.05a$ rsync -v what.dat rsync://10.46.62.130:34913/silo/t4.dat rsync: Unknown host rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151) bash-2.05a$ rsync -v --port=34913 what.dat 10.46.62.130::silo/t4.dat \what.dat wrote 119 bytes read 63 bytes 364.00 bytes/sec total size is 80 speedup is 0.44 --------------------- I used a very old rsync (version 2.5.4, prototocl version 26). Is this a known issue with this version? Did I use rsync incorrectly? Thanks. Chuang On Fri, 15 Feb 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Fri, 2008-02-15 at 19:28 -0600, chuang liu wrote: > > I am trying to transfer a file from a machine A to a machine B. I ran > > a rsync deamon on machine B at a given port. Because there is a firewall > > between these two machines, I opened the port on the firewall. Is this > > enough to get rsync work through firewall? > > > > When I tried the transfer, I got the following error messages. > > > > my command: > > rsync -a --copy-links localfile rsync:://me@<my > > IP>:<port>/<module>/test.dat > > > > In the client side, the error messages are > > > > rsync: Unknown host > > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) > > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151) > > An rsync:// URL should have a single colon. Since you used two colons, > rsync parsed the destination as the path "//me@<my > IP>:<port>/<module>/test.dat" on the daemon on host "rsync", hence the > "rsync: Unknown host" message. Get rid of the extra colon. > > Matt > > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
