Doug Stewart on 1 Oct 2013 19:21:22 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] strange rsync behavior


Eric:
Unless you're mistyping, I don't seem to see a destination for the rsync...?

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Doug


> On Oct 1, 2013, at 10:13 PM, "Eric at Lucii.org" <eric@lucii.org> wrote:
> 
> I've encountered a strange problem with rsync.
> 
> The data is being transferred from a remove vm via ssh tunneling.
> The command executes and the file names all stream across the screen.
> At the end there are no files transferred.  Since the destination directory has
> no files in it and there are gigabytes in the vm I'm not sure what it thinks it
> did.
> 
> Here's the command:
> 
>  rsync -av --rsh=ssh VM:"/home/netlogon"
> 
> The ssh tunnel is "VM" defined by this .ssh/config entry:
> 
> Host VM
>  Hostname 192.168.4.4
>  user root
>  ServerAliveInterval 300
>  ProxyCommand ssh oldsys nc %h %p
> 
> Host oldsys
>  Hostname 99.99.99.9
>  user eric
>  ServerAliveInterval 300
> 
> 
> I know the ssh tunnel works because I can use it to ssh to the vm and scp works too.
> 
> Enclosing the "ssh VM:/home/netlogon" in quotes like that rather than
> the command above generates an error.
> 
> rsync normally "just works" - what's going on?
> 
> Eric
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