[wplug] weird rsync error

Tom Rhodes trhodes at FreeBSD.org
Wed Mar 19 18:25:01 EST 2008


On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:12:43 -0400
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?
> 
> ubuntu at ubuntu:~/Desktop$ rsync --version
> rsync  version 2.6.6  protocol version 29
> Copyright (C) 1996-2005 by Andrew Tridgell and others
> <http://rsync.samba.org/>
> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
>               inplace, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

Why Why WHY are you using rsync???

# ssh-keygen -t dsa -C ''
# ssh BACKUP_SERVER 'mkdir ~/.ssh ; cat >~/.ssh/authorized_keys' <~/.ssh/id_dsa.pub

scp -C doxygen.diff

Unless you have no choice but to use rsync.  But from a quick
skim of your previous replies - it's rsync over ssh.

-- 
Tom Rhodes


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