John R Pierce wrote: > On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message >> "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. >> Possibly the worst error message anywhere? > > thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging > connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly. I'm sure you are right. But I use rsync several times a day, and I have never received this message. It's not ugly, it is inexcusable. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin