rsync and tunneling via ssh

[Dan Pritts]

On Thu, Aug 26, 2004 at 05:48:42PM +0200, Jean-Gabriel Duquesnoy wrote:
> Hi Dan,
> 
> thanks for your hint, i am now one step further, I get the following error now:
> 
> Received disconnect from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx: 2: fork failed: Resource temporarily
> unavailable

Have you verified that the rsync server works when you are already inside the firewall?

This looks like a problem on that side.

If you don't have some other reason to use the rsync server, you should
just use "plain" rsync for this.  

rsync -e ssh -av remotehost:/remote/path /local/path

danno