Eror when running rsync

[Eduard A. Ivanov]

Hi rsync at lists.samba.org,

when trying to use rsync there's an error message:
10.80.12.6: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)             
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151)

there are 2 servers, both have RedHat 7.3 installed
rsync version 2.5.4 is used, protocol version 26

rsync is run on one of them as a demon through xinetd with the config
file rsyncd.conf:
[projects]
comment = projects dir
path = /var/local/projects/
uid = nobody                       
gid = nobody                       
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log     
syslog facility = security         
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid     
max connections = 5                
transfer logging

I execute the following command on another mashine:
$ rsync -av 10.80.12.6:projects/lib lib/
and get the following error message:
10.80.12.6: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)             
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(151)

firewall is off everywhere.

What can be the problem here?


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Best regards,
 Eduard A. Ivanov                          mailto:edi at mpautina.ru