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Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:33:05 -0500 (EST)
From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
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To: Bruce Dobrin <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>
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Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9
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On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Bruce Dobrin wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I have been using rsync via rsh (-e "rsh")   for our general distributions
> for a for all of our windows and Linux machines ( 2000 of them) .   on
> Upgrading from cygwin1.5.5 to 1.5.9,  Rsync could no longer use rsh to
> rsync.
>
> I get : "rsh : unknown option -- server"
> I down graded the rsync2.6.0 from the cyg1.5.9 install  to the 2.5.6 version
> from the cyg1.5.5 version and got the same problem.  I restored the rsync to
> 2.6.0 and copied the rsh.exe from the inetutils-1.3.2-25 from the cyg1.5.5
> install and rsync started working again.
>
> Is there a known bug or known workaround for using the most recent version
> of rsh ( from 1.3.2-26)?
> thanks.
> Bruce Dobrin
>
> example: rsync -rluzv -e "rsh" --timeout=100 --size-only
> matilda:/c/dist_and_install_files/dist/sysadm_general/ /c/
>
> rsh : unknown option -- server

WAG: check text/binary settings on the connection (e.g., does $CYGWIN
contain "nobinmode"?).  Also check with ssh.
	Igor
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