rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2., 6.3/main.c(1073)

[Jeff Yana]

Wayne Davison wrote:

>On Tue, Feb 01, 2005 at 01:47:19PM -0800, Jeff Yana wrote:
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>>In this case, I was just inputting "rsync" with no flags or args.
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You are right, I just did not include it as I thought it would be 
implicit to all. Sorry about the confusion.

>In that case, in addition to the above error, rsync should have also
>output a big, long usage message (on stderr).  You can get the usage
>message on stdout via "rsync --help".  It would be very strange if
>the usage message were not printed.
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>>bash-2.05b$ rsync -avc --progress --stats rsh="ssh -l adminuser" 
>>rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync /cygdrive/g/source/ 
>>adminuser at hostA:/My/Shared/Volume/
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Yes, of course. Next time I should RTFM, ay!

Great advice about setting the environment variable. Do I set this in 
the environment variable tab on the Windows machine under System 
Properties as you would under Cygwin?

>You missed the "--" in front of the --rsh and --rsync-path options, so
>rsync complained that it each one wasn't found as a file.  Also, you
>must not both specify "-l adminuser" to ssh and "adminuser@" -- choose
>one or the other (since they both do the same thing).  I'd recommend
>setting "RSYNC_RSH=ssh" in your environment so that you don't need to
>specify "--rsh=ssh" (which just makes the commands easier to type) and
>then using the "adminuser@" prefix to control the user.
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>..wayne..
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