| Eric at Lucii.org on 1 Oct 2013 19:43:18 -0700 |
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| Re: [PLUG] strange rsync behavior |
Thanks Doug, Aaron. Next time I'll RTFM more carefully :-D Eric On 10/01/2013 10:29 PM, Aaron Mulder wrote: >>From "man rsync": > > As a special case, if a single source arg is specified without a desti- > nation, the files are listed in an output format similar to "ls -l". > > Thanks, > Aaron > > On Tue, 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 >> -- >> # Eric Lucas >> # >> # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth >> # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... >> # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr >> ___________________________________________________________________________ >> Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org >> Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce >> General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > ___________________________________________________________________________ > Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org > Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce > General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > -- # Eric Lucas # # "Oh, I have slipped the surly bond of earth # And danced the skies on laughter-silvered wings... # -- John Gillespie Magee Jr ___________________________________________________________________________ Philadelphia Linux Users Group -- http://www.phillylinux.org Announcements - http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug-announce General Discussion -- http://lists.phillylinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug