rsync - Dec 2007 - rsync hangs when accessing through SSH (Leopard OS X)

To preface, I'm running Leopard OSX and am using rsync  version 2.6.9   
protocol version 29.

Whenever I attempt to sync (using rsync obviously) a folder on my  
local drive to my web server (netfirms.com is my web host) using SSH,  
the process hangs. I have to force kill it in order to continue using  
Terminal. I can connect to my server space using SSH just fine by  
itself, and I ran rsync to sync two folders locally just fine. Is  
there some special syntax I need to use when using rsync with SSH?  
I've searched google and the mailing lists, and I didn't find much.  
I'm fairly inexperienced with Unix, so I believe that I am the culprit  
of this problem :-)

This is the syntax I'm using:
'rsync -avz /iWeb/test [username]@ssh.netfirms.com:TEST'

(I have tested using just '-v' and nothing is displayed)
/iWeb/test is the folder I'm trying to sync to the folder TEST on my  
web space.

Is this a problem I need to take to my webhost, netfirms.com? Or is  
this an issue with my rsync configuration? Like I said, I know little  
about unix, so I have a feeling I may have configured something wrong.  
This is really frustrating me, and help would be greatly appreciated.  
Thanks in advance!

-Greg

At 15:39 02.12.2007 -0500, Greg Loesch wrote:
>To preface, I'm running Leopard OSX and am using rsync  version 2.6.9   
>protocol version 29.
>
>Whenever I attempt to sync (using rsync obviously) a folder on my  
>local drive to my web server (netfirms.com is my web host) using SSH,  
>the process hangs. I have to force kill it in order to continue using  
>Terminal. I can connect to my server space using SSH just fine by  
>itself, and I ran rsync to sync two folders locally just fine. Is  
>there some special syntax I need to use when using rsync with SSH?  
>I've searched google and the mailing lists, and I didn't find much.
>I'm fairly inexperienced with Unix, so I believe that I am the culprit  
>of this problem :-)
Please look in the mailing list's archive, rsync stalls keep coming up.
e.g. http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-November/019243.html
or http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2007-October/018770.html

bye  Fabi

On 7.12.2007, at 17:13, Greg Loesch wrote:
> Okay, I tried adding the extra v's and this is what I ended up with.  
> I'm now using the latest version (3.0.x or whatever it is).
>
> FILE_STRUCT_LEN=16, EXTRA_LEN=4
> cmd=<NULL> machine=[sitename] user=[username] path=[filepath]
> cmd[0]=ssh cmd[1]=-l cmd[2]=[username] cmd[3]=[sitename]  
> cmd[4]=rsync cmd[5]=--server cmd[6]=-vvvvvvvvvlogDtprze30.15i  
> cmd[7]=. cmd[8]=[filepath]
> note: iconv_open("UTF-8", "UTF-8") succeeded.
> opening connection using: ssh -l [username] [sitename] rsync -- 
> server -vvvvvvvvvlogDtprze30.15i . [filepath]
> [username[@[sitename]'s password:
>
> Once I enter my password it hangs. Is this of any help? I did  
> contact the webhost and this is what the guy told me, "At the  
> moment, we do not support this UNIX SSH command." Does that make  
> sense?
>

It is strange to allow ssh and disallow rsync, but possible...

It seems that you are out of luck.


izidor

On Sunday 02 December 2007 22:39, Greg Loesch wrote:
> To preface, I'm running Leopard OSX and am using rsync  version 2.6.9
> protocol version 29.
>
> Whenever I attempt to sync (using rsync obviously) a folder on my
> local drive to my web server (netfirms.com is my web host) using SSH,
> the process hangs. I have to force kill it in order to continue using
> Terminal. I can connect to my server space using SSH just fine by
> itself, and I ran rsync to sync two folders locally just fine. Is
> there some special syntax I need to use when using rsync with SSH?
> I've searched google and the mailing lists, and I didn't find much.
> I'm fairly inexperienced with Unix, so I believe that I am the culprit
> of this problem :-)
>
> This is the syntax I'm using:
> 'rsync -avz /iWeb/test [username]@ssh.netfirms.com:TEST'
1. Is rsync installed on the machine you're transferring stuff to?
2. Assuming the destination folder TEST is in your home directory on the 
target server, try the syntax:
rsync -avvz -e "ssh -v" /iWeb/test [username]@ssh.netforms.com:~/TEST

-A