Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help AT cygwin DOT com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner AT cygwin DOT com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin AT cygwin DOT com X-Authentication-Warning: slinky.cs.nyu.edu: pechtcha owned process doing -bs Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:33:05 -0500 (EST) From: Igor Pechtchanski Reply-To: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com To: Bruce Dobrin cc: cygwin AT cygwin DOT com Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 In-Reply-To: <00ec01c41387$02143d10$4d1f1cac@THEODOLITE> Message-ID: References: <00ec01c41387$02143d10$4d1f1cac AT THEODOLITE> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Scanned-By: MIMEDefang 2.39 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 -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ igor AT watson DOT ibm DOT com |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- 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/