Arch Willingham schrieb: > The backuppc server is machine2. I.E. it is trying to backup itself. > > I ran that first command you gave me and it gave a weird message > "The authenticity of machine2 can't be established. RSA key > fingerprint is blah, blah, blah. Are you sure you want to continue > connecting? Please type yes or no"...I typed yes, gave it root's > password and tried running BackupPC again. > > This time, instead of the previous "fileListReceive failed" errors I > get "Unable to read 4 bytes" errors and this is in the error log: > > Running: /usr/bin/ssh -q -x -l root machine2 /usr/bin/rsync --server > --sender --numeric-ids --perms --owner --group -D --links > --hard-links --times --block-size=2048 --recursive --ignore-times . > / Xfer PIDs are now 7245 Read EOF: Connection reset by peer Tried > again: got 0 bytes Done: 0 files, 0 bytes Got fatal error during > xfer (Unable to read 4 bytes) Backup aborted (Unable to read 4 > bytes) > > > BTW...I also ran that second command you gave me and I copied the > output from it to below (holy macaroni....I have no idea what all > that stuff means!). > > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# /usr/bin/ssh -vvv -x -l root machine2
You should run this command on the backuppc side as user backuppc. Either su to the backuppc user and execute the command or try 'su -c backuppc /usr/bin/ssh -vvv -x -l root machine2'. Ralf ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/