Please fix your mailer. The text contains garbage characters. Also, don't indent the start of paragraphs.
On Wed, Jul 30, 2003 at 12:18:52AM +0000, Abhilash Vantaram wrote: > > Hi all, > I am very new to the rsync world (as well as the linux world) and have > some really basic doubts. Please bear with me. > I installed RH 9 on two systems in the same network and Rsync 2.5.5 was > automatically installed with it. When I executed the command ?rsync ?avz > test.txt /backupdir/ ?, it backed up the file test.txt into > backupdir/test.txt. But when I tried the command ?rsync ?avz test.txt > system2::home/? , it gave me the following: > ?system2 connection refused. > Rsync: connection unexpectedly closed. > Rsync error: error in protocol data stream(code 12) at > IO.c(150)? > System2 has a fully qualified domain name. > Could anyone please tell me if I have to start the Rsync server and if yes, > how to do it. > Thank you, > AV You don't have an rsync service running. Take your time reading the manpage section about the eight different ways of using rsync. Anything i said here would just be duplicating that document. -- ________________________________________________________________ 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.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html