rsync on Freebsd 5.3

Kevin Sanders newroswell at gmail.com
Fri Aug 18 16:58:02 UTC 2006


I've never needed to do any rsync specific configuration, just install
from ports on both machines.  This sounds more like a ssh
configuration issue ("connect to host newfreebsd.com port 22:
Connection refused") on newfreebsd.com.  Or maybe you're not allowing
ssh connections thru the firewall on newfreebsd.com?

Kevin

On 8/18/06, Lisa Casey <lisa at jellico.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to transfer all files in /var/mail from one Freebsd 5.3 machine
> (oldfreebsd.com) to another (newfreebsd.com). I decided to use rsync for
> this since it would preserve ownership, permissions, etc. I made sure rsync
> was installed on both machines. Neither machine had an /etc/rsyncd.conf or
> /etc/rsyncd.motd file. On newfreebsd.com I created /etc/rsyncd.conf thusly:
>
> motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> max connections = 1
> hosts allow = 208.44.xx.xx
>
> (The IP address is that of oldfreebsd.com)
>
> On newfreebsd.com, I created rsyncd.motd with the words Authorized Users
> Only in it.
>
> as a test, I'm just trying to rsync /var/mail/lisa from oldfreebsd.com to
> newfreebsd.com. When that works I'll do all of /var/mail/
>
> on oldfreebsd.com I cd /var/mail, then  type:  rsync lisa
> newfreebsd.com:/var/mail/
>
> and get this:
>
> connect to host newfreebsd.com port 22: Connection refused
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(348)
>
> Anyone know what might be wrong? Or can anyone suggest a better way of
> moving these mail boxes?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Lisa Casey
>
>
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