"connection unexpectedly closed" error

[David L. Harfst]

Hi,

I'm sure I'm missing something simple but I can't find it.

We just set up a new server with Fedora Core 2 and I'm trying to set up 
an rsync to it.  I've had this working to a Debian machine, so I'm 
almost sure my config is rsync config is good.

I'm running rsync 2.6.2-1 in daemon mode on the server with the 
following config file:

log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
hosts allow = 172.16.0.0/255.255.0.0
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

[validation]
         path = /var/net/validation
         uid = root
         gid = root
         read only = no
         list = false
         auth users = sync

 From the client, also Fedora Core 2, also running 2.6.2-1 I'm doing the 
following:

rsync -avH --delete-excluded --delete \
       --password-file=/etc/rsyncval.pwd \
       FOCUS sync at 192.168.13.252::validation

The output is as follows:

  building file list ... done
  rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (69 bytes read so far)
  rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342)

I don't think it is a failed authorization because it would tell me that 
in the log file on the server.  It seems to be getting the connection, 
building a list of files to transfer, but then dies when it actually 
starts to do anything.

I'd appreciate any help debugging this - I've been looking at it for 
several hours now.

Thanks