> 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
>>
>Shawn Perry wrote:
> Does this host have alot of hard links?
> 

That's a good question that I have no idea how to answer.


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