X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org From: "Dave Korn" To: Subject: RE: Where is my --password-file? Date: Wed, 14 Dec 2005 12:35:59 -0000 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com jd wrote: > I am trying to back up a Windows box using rsync and I get this error > message: > > rsync: link_stat > "/home/Administrator/password-file=/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd" > failed: No such file or directory (2) > > But the file is there: > > $ ls -al /home/Administrator/rsync_passwd > -rw-r--r-- 1 Administrator Domain Users 10 Dec 12 16:02 > /home/Administrator/rsync_passwd > > What am I missing? > > Janos Dohanics The fact that it's not looking for a file called "/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd" but one called "/home/Administrator/password-file=/home/Administrator/rsync_passwd" which probably doesn't exist..... Perhaps you have a mistake in the command line you're using? Perhaps you've typed "~password-file=XXXX" when you meant to say "--password-file=XXXX"? Yep, that's probably it. You typed a tilde instead of a dash and it's being expanded to your home dir path. cheers, DaveK -- Can't think of a witty .sigline today.... -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/