pulling files

[Daniel Teklu]

I am trying to pull files froma remote server. here is what I have on
rsyncd.conf on the remote server:

[test]
 comment = TEST
 path = /home/test
 read only = no
 uid = root
 gid = root

and on the local server I run

# rsync -avR --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync remote_server::test
/home/test

and I am getting this error:

@ERROR: invalid gid root
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (87 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(342)

is my rsync syntax wrong or it is something else? Please help. Thanks

-Daniel