[ILUG] Strange rsync issues

[Darragh Bailey]

On Wed, Jan 20, 2010 at 09:22:40AM +0000, Brian O'Mahony wrote:
> I have been running about eight cron'd rsynchs from a server in Bangalore to a  server in Dublin daily for the last number of years, successfully. Recently however something strange has started to happen.
> 
> The synchs all fire off at the same time basically. The first synch of each time fails, as follows:
> 
> 
> spawn /usr/bin/rsync -av -e ssh --delete --bwlimit=0 buzz:/cvs/AppDev/ /cvs/AppDev/
> 
> ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
> 
> send: spawn id exp3 not open
> 
>     while executing
> 
> "send "<password>\r""
> 
>     (file "/root/cvssync" line 6)
> 
> 
> 
> The next cronjob email I get, which is twelve seconds later, completes. If I run it manually it completes. If I change the first cronjob in the list, that is the one that fails.
> 
> Anyone have any ideas?
> 
> B

try changing the starting command line to provide a little more detail

spawn /usr/bin/rsync -av -e "ssh -vvv" --delete --bwlimit=0
buzz:/cvs/AppDev/ /cvs/AppDev/

and compare the output at the start between the working and failing
connections until the ssh process completes the connection.

-- 
Darragh

"Nothing is foolproof to a sufficiently talented fool."