On Sun, 2011-03-06 at 12:46 +0000, Timothy Murphy wrote:
> I have some sympathy for the OP.
> BackupPC has been running faultlessly on my CentOS-5 system
> for a couple of years.

> But I did find it quite difficult to get going,
> with the infuriating (and useless) error message
> "Unable to read 4 bytes" coming up repeatedly.
> 
> In my case the problem was to do with ssh authentication.

That's a fair point. BackupPC assumes you have already sorted out the
authentication system before setting up clients. I'm a nut for SSH, but
even I found the "Unable to read 4 bytes" error unusually obtuse. It
would be nice if BackupPC printed the SSH auth error instead of that.

Regards,
Tyler

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"Complaining about ionizing radiation on your way to a plane flight is
like complaining about a TSA pat-down on your way to Caligula's palace."
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