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RE: rsync over ssh hang issue understood


On 27 April 2006 10:45, Brett Serkez wrote:

> <snip>
>>   Doesn't even run once for me.  Creating all the files over ssh works fine
>> but the rsync invocation fails with
>> 
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
>> (Client) Protocol versions: remote=1919251285, negotiated=29
>> protocol version mismatch -- is your shell clean?
>> (see the rsync man page for an explanation)
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> When you log into the target, if there is any output on standard out,
> it can cause this message, which is what is meant by 'is your shell
> clean'.  rsync runs rsync on the target via ssh and then both copies
> of rsync communicate with each other over their standard descriptors.
> 
> The first communication is their version and protocol, if something
> else prints on the standard out of the target, it will cause the
> client to become confused.  ssh into your target and see what prints
> during login.

  Thanks for the explanation.  It turns out that 1919251285 is "User" in
ascii->hex!  I was getting some output from my startup scripts because lots of
the environment was missing and I was getting "unbound variable" warnings.


    cheers,
      DaveK
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