[CentOS] rsync -x does not do the same on EL 5.6 and 5.7

Thu Sep 8 07:48:36 UTC 2011
Nicolas Thierry-Mieg <Nicolas.Thierry-Mieg at imag.fr>

Philippe Naudin wrote:
> This is not the only difference between rsync-2.x and 3.x.
>
> We are doing
> rsync -azX --delete-after etc...
> and it fails with rsync-3.
>
> On the server (still running rsync-2), /var/log/secure shows the
> difference (sorry for the long lines).
>> From a rsync-2 client, we receive :
> Sep  7 12:35:01 lasbHOME scponly[6166]: running: /usr/bin/rsync --server -lXogDtprz --delete --delete-after etc...
>> From a rsync-3 client, it turns to :
> Sep  7 20:35:01 lasbHOME scponly[12764]: option 'e' or a related long option is not permitted for use with /usr/bin/rsync (arg was .is)
> Sep  7 20:35:01 lasbHOME scponly[12764]: requested command (/usr/bin/rsync --server -logDtpXrze.is --delete-after etc...) tried to use disallowed argument

google says this seems to be a problem with scponly, not rsync per se.
HTH