On 31 January 2012 22:14, Les Mikesell <lesmikesell at gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 4:01 PM, <m.roth at 5-cent.us> wrote: >>> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 3:14 PM, Ljubomir Ljubojevic <office at plnet.rs> >>> wrote: >>>> On 01/31/2012 09:47 PM, Les Mikesell wrote: >>>>> No, I'm trying to have rsync make an outbound connection over ssh from >>>>> the rescue environment and getting what looks like an argument error >>>>> from ssh. Ssh itself works and I can connect to the same target if I >>>>> run it directly, and the exact same rsync command lines work from a >>>>> normal host. Either rsync isn't setting up the remote command right, >>>>> or ssh isn't allowing it and giving a bad error message. There was a buggy version of rsync that did this. It wasn't initialising the ssh session properly from my email a while ago: On Tue, 23 Aug 2011, Ned Slider wrote: > On 23/08/11 12:35, Michael Simpson wrote: >> Hello >> >> Is anyone else having problems on 5.6 using the new rsync from the CR repo >> I have only managed to get rsync (called from the cli) working again >> after downgrading it to the previous 2.x release as the newer version >> was just spitting out the ssh usage information and failing. >> This server is stock i386 with just the CR as an extra repo. >> >> regards >> >> mike > > Known issue I'm guessing: > > https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=724041 > > which was fixed nearly a month ago. So instead of saying nearly a month ago how about we we say it was only released 20 days ago. BZ says it was released 03 Aug 11. > > If this is your issue, try appending username at host like so: > > rsync user at host:/ > > as a workaround, but I'm not sure why CentOS is still shipping an old > broken version? Umm, maybe because upstream shipped rsync-3.0.6-4.el5.i386.rpm with 5.7 and the rsync-3.0.6-4.el5_7.1.i386.rpm has not made it to CentOS yet. Remember that bug for bug compatibility thing. :-) Patience is a virtue. Regards,