On Wed, Jul 30, 2008 at 11:49:12AM +0200, brunal wrote:
> But still doesn't work, same old story with "Unable to read 4 bytes".  
> (crying).
> 
> So after filling a few kleenex, I tried these commands :
> 
> /ffp/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.1.2 /usr/bin/rsync --version
> 
> Answer :
> rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29
> Copyright (C) 1996-2006 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
> <http://rsync.samba.org/>
> Capabilities: 64-bit files, .... blablabla
> ... General Public Licence for details.
> 
> Seems to work!
> 
> But when I get :
> /ffp/bin/ssh -q -x -l root 192.168.1.2 rsync --server --sender -- 
> numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links --times -- 
> block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /home/temp/
> 
> Nothing happend and the command just freeze. (crying again).
> 
> i tried to dig in /var/log in the host-to-backup-192.168.1.2 to fing  
> a relevant log file but I found nothing.
> 
> Please light my way, it's getting darker....

I notice that you had to provide the full path to rsync in your
/usr/bin/rsync --version example, but you don't have the full path in
the backuppc rsync command. Maybe that's a clue (although I would be
surprised that /usr/bin isn't in root's path).

-- 
                                -- rouilj

John Rouillard
System Administrator
Renesys Corporation
603-244-9084 (cell)
603-643-9300 x 111

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