Connection to rsyncd over ssh tunnel seems to choke up (v2.6.9 Ubuntu)

2011-04-26 Thread Frank Hamersley
I have been running the following (from a cron script with a non password authorized_key exchange) ... rsync -aP -vv --exclude=.*/ -e 'ssh -fN u...@site.com.au -L 8873:127.0.0.1:873' rsync://localhost:8873/data/ /data/ ... and not getting much to happen as either evidenced in /var/log/rsyncd.log

Re: Connection to rsyncd over ssh tunnel seems to choke up (v2.6.9 Ubuntu)

2011-04-26 Thread Wayne Davison
On Tue, Apr 26, 2011 at 7:00 AM, Frank Hamersley terab...@bigpond.com wrote: rsync -aP -vv --exclude=.*/ -e 'ssh -fN u...@site.com.au -L 8873:127.0.0.1:873' rsync://localhost:8873/data/ /data/ The combination of daemon syntax and a remote shell tells rsync to connect to use the remote-shell