rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (Broken pipe)

[jw schultz]

On Tue, Jun 17, 2003 at 09:10:38AM -0500, Nathaniel Case wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 at 16:24:25 -0700, jw schultz wrote:
> >
> > > After looking at io.c, it seems like the problem (rather, the symptom)
> > > for
> > > this error message is a failed write() call (which explains the Broken
> > > Pipe message to stderr).  I thought maybe --blocking-io would avoid this
> > > issue, but it still happened when using --blocking-io.
> >
> > It would seem that the server process (forked off from the
> > daemon) is dying.  Look in the rsyncd log file (may be
> > syslog) for clues.
> 
> Yes, this does appear to be what is happening.  I actually had tried
> looking at the daemon logs, but there didn't appear to be anything
> remotely interesting in it.  This is the only line I see in the log:
> 
> 2003/06/16 16:23:48 [17924] rsync to blah/blah/Blah/ from backup at host
> (10.x.x.x)
> 
> Is there any way to increase the verbosity for this?  Adding -v's to the
> daemon process didn't appear to affect it.  Oh well, I guess it's time to
> start debugging.

You could try turning on transfer logging i suppose.  If you
haven't already done so you might want to use the "log file"
option in case chroot is getting in the way.  Beyond this i
have no suggestions; i dont use rsyncd.

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