connection unexpectedly closed...
Nigel Gilbert
n.gilbert at soc.surrey.ac.uk
Wed Jan 12 22:38:11 GMT 2005
When I run
rsync -v --exclude-from= -a --delete --numeric-ids -e ssh -i
/root/.ssh/id_rsa /bin/ root at sandi:/export/home/scbackup/socnt01//bin/
I immediately get:
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
rsync -v --exclude-from= -a --delete -e ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa /boot/
root at sandi:/export/home/scbackup/socnt01//boot/
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
However, if I run exactly the same command, but with a normal user as
the remote user instead of root, the rsync works as expected.
Both root and the normal user have passphraseless keys set. the reason
why I want the rsync to run with root as the remote user is that I want
the UID and GID of the copied files to be preserved on the remote
machine (which has users and UIDs quite different from the local
machine).
What could I be doing wrong which stops it working with root as the
remote user?
thanks for your hints!
Nigel
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