JW, Thank you for replying. You are correct in that I do have two identical machines, thanks for clarifying.
It seems I still get the same exact error message with or without using SSH. Which brings me back to why I'm I getting the error message, eventhough the file has transferred? Regards, Rick King -----Original Message----- From: jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 27, 2003 12:37 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: Re: Rsync error main.c On Thu, Mar 27, 2003 at 11:29:33AM -0500, KING,RICHARD (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > Rsync Ver: 2.5.5 > OS: HPUX-11 Assuming that describes both ends. > Hello List, > > I'm using rsync with ssh with this command line: > > rsync -avz -e ssh some_file [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/user-b > > Which does work, however I get the following error output: > > rsync error: protocol incompatibility (code 2) at main.c(578) > > Since the file does transfer, is the error output just some sort of > bug? I looked in the maillist archives, and I found only one person > that replied stating that the error message was merely a "user > friendly nit". > > What I would like to know is: > A) Is the error message something to be concerned about? > B) Is there a patch? > C) What option to use to surpress the error message? > > However, I did find it odd in using the following command line, I did > not get any error output: > > rsync -avz -e ssh hostname-a:/home/user-a/some_file /home/user-b > > > Any help with the error message would be greatly appreciated. > > It looks like your ssh process took a sigint. Try -vv That should generate a log message that reads _exit_cleanup(code=nn, file=nn, line=nn): about to call exit(nn) -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html