IO error encountered - skipping file deletion

[Stan Silverman]

I'm starting to run rsync 2.6.3 on a new system and receive the
following message

IO error encountered - skipping file deletion

as output whether or not there are files that should be deleted (which
they're not) 
on the remote system. Except for the "delete" capability, everything
else seems
to work.

The rsync command looks like:
rsync -avz --delete -e /usr/local/bin/ssh /ftp/pub/
ftpuser at ftpint:./ftpsite/

Thanks,

Stan Silverman
silver at usgs.gov