How to know the remote version of rsync daemon?

[Alexandros Papadopoulos]

On Wednesday 03 May 2006 13:13, Pirla wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> is possible to know what version is executed on one server?

You can get the protocol version with a simple netcat to the server:

$ nc -n -v 172.16.23.5 873
(UNKNOWN) [172.16.23.5] 873 (rsync) open
@RSYNCD: 29

Hence, protocol version 29.

Not sure about the program version.

-A