[wplug] weird rsync error

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 1:12 PM, Zach <netrek at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2008 at 5:14 AM, Alexandros Papadopoulos
>  <apapadop at alumni.cmu.edu> wrote:
>  >
>  >  I don't know why this is so, but I've always found that temporarily
>  >  storing the password in an environment variable works much better.
>  >
>  >  $ export RSYNC_PASSWORD=blah
>  >  $ rsync ....
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I tried that but rsync still prompts me for the password. And then the
>  same error occurs, but this time it took nearly 3 minutes:
>
>  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Desktop$ export RSYNC_PASSWORD=foo
>
>
>  ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Desktop$ time rsync -avP --progress doxygen.diff
>  chaos at unix.club.cc.cmu.edu:/afs/club.cc.cmu.edu/usr/chaos/tmp
>  chaos at unix.club.cc.cmu.edu's password:
>  rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
>  rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434)
>
>  real    2m53.439s
>  user    0m0.051s
>  sys     0m0.209s
>
>  Here is the version I have, maybe RSYNC_PASSWORD isn't known to it?

Sorry I was off-base here. RSYNC_PASSWORD is for rsync authentication,
you're trying to do (hopefully) SSH-based authentication.

Try this:
$ rsync -avP -e "ssh -v" doxygen.diff
chaos at unix.club.cc.cmu.edu:/afs/club.cc.cmu.edu/usr/chaos/tmp

-A