Eror when running rsync

[jw schultz]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 05:37:34PM +0500, Eduard A. Ivanov wrote:
> 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?

You are trying to connect using rsh.  The manpage is
abundantly clear how to do this.

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