protocol version mismatch

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2004-05-25 16:35:46 +0200, Arjen van der Meer <ameer at science.uva.nl>
wrote in message <Pine.LNX.4.44.0405251539290.7094-100000 at poulenc.science.uva.nl>:
>   rsync -a /home/ameer/midastests remotemachine:/home/ameer/midastests
> 
>   protocol version mismatch - is your shell clean?
>   (see the rsync man page for an explanation)
>   rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at compat.c(62)

So it seems the scripts executed upon login (.bashrc, .profile,
.bash_profile, ...) send some output (that they better didn't send).

Please try:

$ ssh remotemachine true > this_file_should_be_empty

If the file "this_file_should_be_empty" contains *anything*, you'd look
at your scripts and comment those outputting commands.

MfG, JBG

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