rsync freezes on solaris

[Dave Barstow]

For what is worth, I've had no problems running rsync with Sun_SSH_1.0 under
Solaris 9
on Intel & Sparc.
All I can suggest for your problem Anand is follow the usual trouble shooting
techniques
of breaking the problem down i.e. try rsh!

Dave

jw schultz wrote:

> On Tue, Oct 14, 2003 at 08:33:49PM +0530, Anand Raman wrote:
> > hi guys
> >
> > We use rsync extensively in keeping the site resources in
> > synch across redundant infrastructure.  While attempting
> > rsync for one of the boxes we find that the rsync process
> > simply sleeps. The situation remains the same even if we
> > have sync very small contents of the order of 4 KB. The
> > same run with the -an flag runs without any issues. We run
> > rsync over ssh on solaris boxes.  To debug the situation
> > we attached "truss" to the process on the source as well
> > as the destination.
> >
> > We see the following output on the destination server.
> [snip]
> >
> > The rsync process also terminates unexpectedly on the
> > remote server and I suspect thats what is causing the
> > freeze to happen.
> >
> > Any help in figuring out this issue will be greatly
> > appreciated. Please let me know if I have missed some
> > information which would have further helped in diagnosing
> > the issue
>
> There have been problems like this reported with the Sun
> supplied version of ssh that have generally resolved by
> using a home-built openssh instead.
>
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