Rsync error main.c

[jw schultz]

On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:29:33AM -0500, KING,RICHARD (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote:
> Rsync Ver: 2.5.5
> OS: HPUX-11

Assuming that describes both ends.

> Hello List, 
> 
> I'm using rsync with ssh with this command line:
> 
> rsync -avz -e ssh some_file user-b at hostname-b:/home/user-b
> 
> Which does work, however I get the following error output:
> 
> rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at main.c(578)
> 
> Since the file does transfer, is the error output just some sort of bug? I
> looked in the maillist archives, and I found only one person that replied
> stating that the error message was merely a "user friendly nit". 
> 
> What I would like to know is:
> A) Is the error message something to be concerned about?
> B) Is there a patch?
> C) What option to use to surpress the error message?
> 
> However, I did find it odd in using the following command line, I did not
> get any error output:
> 
> rsync -avz -e ssh hostname-a:/home/user-a/some_file /home/user-b
> 
> 
> Any help with the error message would be greatly appreciated. 
> 
> 

It looks like your ssh process took a sigint.
Try -vv  That should generate a log message that reads
_exit_cleanup(code=nn, file=nn, line=nn): about to call exit(nn)


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