Communication problem with rsync-2.6.0

[Tim Conway]

The first problem is that you're attempting to use a remote transport on a 
local transfer.
The second problem is that you have put "-e rsh" after filespecs, thus 
having it interpreted as such.
What you have asked rsync to do is to put the contents of "source/", 
"dest/", and the object "-e", in to the directory "rsh".  I'm just 
guessing that's not what you wanted.
A correct cmdline to do what it appears you want would be 
"rsync -r source/ dest/"
.  If you have removed a hostname from the source or dest path, you'd want
"rsync -r -e rsh source/ desthost:dest/"
or
"rsync -r -e rsh sourcehost:source/ dest/"
, depending on which is the remote.

If I read my country codes correctly, you're to be commended for 
interpreting the documentation as well as you have... I sure couldn't read 
Polish.

Tim Conway
Unix System Administration
Contractor - IBM Global Services
desk:3032734776
conway at us.ibm.com




hello, 

 I have a following problem while using rsync:

rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)

it was coused by command rsync -r source/ dest/ -e rsh