On 5/11/2010 8:19 AM, Josh Malone wrote:
> On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:14:54 -0500, Nick Bright<oz AT valnet DOT net>  wrote:
>    
>> Let me start off by saying this: I know what I'm doing.
>>
>> I've been running backuppc for about two years on two servers, backing
>> up about 25 servers (mix of windows and linux).
>>
>> This is the ONLY machine I've ever had this problem with that wasn't SSH
>>      
>    
>> authentication problems, and what's worse is that it worked for almost a
>>      
>    
>> year before it stopped working. I'm convinced it's something about the
>> shell or environment of the client system, but I've been trying to
>> figure this out since last *November* and I'm just not getting anywhere
>> with it. Every single hit just says "your SSH keys are messed up", but
>> they most certainly are /not/ messed up, as evidenced below.
>>
>> All of the configuration is the same as my other linux servers. I can
>> find absolutely nothing preventing this from working, but it fails every
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>> time!
>>      
> <diag info snipped>
>
> Hi. I run BackupPC on RHEL5 and I've never had the slightest problems.
> That said, here's all I can think of:
>
> Have you checked the 'messages' and 'secure' logs on the target server?
> Are your target servers (the backed-up hosts) also running CentOS5?
>    
Thank you for taking the time to reply.

Yes, they don't say anything at all. No rejections or failures or 
successes. Just blank.

The target server is also CentOS5.

> I would try running the actual rsync-over-ssh command as the backuppc user
> on the backuppc server:
>
>     usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root TargetServer /usr/bin/rsync --server \
>        --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links \
>        --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --port=38271 \
>        --ignore-times . /
>
> And see if you get anything from that command or in the logs of the target
> server.
>    

Nothing at all. No errors, no success messages. Just blank.

> If all else fails, try starting sshd in the foreground (sshd -D) on the
> target server and watch the connection and process start up.
>
> -Josh
>
>    


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