On Mon, 10 May 2010 20:14:54 -0500, Nick Bright <o...@valnet.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 > 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? 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. 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 -- -------------------------------------------------------- Joshua Malone Systems Administrator (jmal...@nrao.edu) NRAO Charlottesville 434-296-0263 www.cv.nrao.edu 434-249-5699 (mobile) BOFH excuse #360: Your parity check is overdrawn and you're out of cache. -------------------------------------------------------- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/