Does this host have alot of hard links?

On Mon, Nov 9, 2009 at 4:57 PM, Nick Bright <nick.bright AT valnet DOT net> 
wrote:
> Les Mikesell wrote:
>> Nick Bright wrote:
>>> I've got a bit of a strange situation. My backuppc server, which
>>> successfully backs up a half dozen or so machines, is unable to backup
>>> one particular host.
>>>
>>> This host is configured the same as all of my other hosts which backup
>>> successfully, but after running the rsync process for 8 to 10 hours, the
>>> backup fails with this entry in the XferLOG:
>>>
>>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>>> full backup started for directory /
>>> Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root cpanel /usr/bin/rsync --server
>>> --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links --hard-links
>>> --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . /
>>> Xfer PIDs are now 27778
>>> Got remote protocol 1768191091
>>> Fatal error (bad version): stdin: is not a tty
>>
>> I'm not sure it if causes this symptom, but one thing to check is that
>> the remote shell for root can't output anything (like a
>> message-of-the-day) before starting the specified program.
>>
>
> Thank you for your reply. I checked in to it, and determined that there
> isn't anything being output by logging in to the backuppc system and "su
> backuppc" then "ssh root@cpanel":
>
> [backuppc@backuppc ~]$ ssh root@cpanel
> Last login: Sat Sep 26 16:08:46 2009 from backuppc
> root@cpanel [~]#
>
> However, I did find that /etc/motd existed and was empty. I deleted it
> to see what would happen on the next backup cycle. SSHing into the
> client system under a normal user also does not result in any MOTD's or
> warning messages.
>
>  - Nick
>
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