RSync and SSH problems

[Wayne Davison]

On Mon, Jul 18, 2005 at 05:58:12PM +0200, Olivier Thauvin wrote:
> Le Monday 18 July 2005 17:42, vous avez écrit :
> > rsync -av --rsh="ssh -l sshuser" *.* user at host.com::module
> 
> The syntax is wrong:
> 
> - ssh -l is not need as rsync will use the user in the url:

Not when combined with :: syntax.  The "user" in the above syntax is the
daemon-protocol's user, not the ssh user, so if you need an alternate
sshuser AND you want to start up a single-use daemon, you must use the
-l option to ssh (as suggested in the rsync docs).  Typically users
don't want both a remote-shell transport and daemon-syntax, but some
folks do.

To the original poster:  check the syslog for any messages about why
the remote rsync-daemon exited.  It may be that you don't have the
rsyncd.conf file in the home dir of the sshuser (or at least a symlink
in that homedir to the config file).

..wayne..