FAQ: Moving files between two machines using rsync

[Andrew Liles]

check /var/log/messages

check you have the correct file permissions on the daemon secrets file and 
local secret file; both should not be world readable


At 03:33 17/02/2004, Mauricio wrote:
>At 21:01 +0000 2/16/04, Andrew Liles wrote:
>>Although not an rsync expert, I think your problem is in the way you 
>>reference the remote machine.
>>
>>rsync will either work on a remote machine gaining access via a shell 
>>(which SSH recently became the default) or will use the rsync daemon.
>>
>>Firstly, your configuration steps so far have setup an rsync daemon so 
>>you should have specified the syntax to connect to the daemon. This is 
>>achieve with a double colon "::" as opposed to the normal single colon.
>>
>>Secondly, if you use the the rsync demon you must refer to a "module" 
>>which in your case is "tmp" which just happens to be the same as the 
>>directory name.  The syntax for referring to a module does not include a 
>>leading slash.
>>
>>So I suggest you try the following - just 1 character different:
>>
>>rsync -vz \
>>         --password-file=/export/home/raub/nogo \
>>         /export/home/raub/sync-me \
>>         raub at katri::tmp
>
>         Hello there!
>
>         Thanks for the info on the missing character; at least now I seem 
> to be *almost* there:
>
>raub at kushana-13>rsync -vz \
>?         --password-file=/export/home/raub/nogo \
>?         /export/home/raub/sync-me \
>?         raub at katri::tmp
>NetBSD 1.6.1 (GENERIC) #0: Tue Apr 8 21:00:42 UTC 2003
>
>Welcome to NetBSD!
>
>
>@ERROR: auth failed on module tmp
>rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (164 bytes read so far)
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
>raub at kushana-14>
>
>I still feel clueless.  Would you have another pointer for what I should 
>try next?  Thanks!
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