On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message > "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. > Possibly the worst error message anywhere?thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
John R Pierce wrote:> On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >> The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message >> "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. >> Possibly the worst error message anywhere? > > thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging > connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly.I'm sure you are right. But I use rsync several times a day, and I have never received this message. It's not ugly, it is inexcusable. -- Timothy Murphy gayleard /at/ eircom.net School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin
On 5/7/2015 2:21 PM, Timothy Murphy wrote:> John R Pierce wrote: > >> >On 5/7/2015 4:56 AM, Timothy Murphy wrote: >>> >>The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message >>> >>"Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. >>> >>Possibly the worst error message anywhere? >> > >> >thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging >> >connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly. > I'm sure you are right. > But I use rsync several times a day, and I have never received this message. > > It's not ugly, it is inexcusable.I just tried a command line rsync to a host that wasn't listening to ssh at all, and got.. ssh: connect to host castillc2-PC port 22: Connection timed out rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(600) [receiver=3.0.6] not exactly the pinnacle of clarity. -- john r pierce, recycling bits in santa cruz
> -----Original Message----- > From: centos-bounces at centos.org [mailto:centos-bounces at centos.org] On > Behalf Of Timothy Murphy > Sent: den 7 maj 2015 23:21 > To: centos at centos.org > Subject: Re: [CentOS] Backup PC or other solution > > >> The worst thing about BackupPC is the insane error message > >> "Unable to read 4 bytes", which comes up if anything is wrong. > >> Possibly the worst error message anywhere? > > > > thats an rsync protocol message, and yeah, debugging > > connection/authentication issues is a bit ugly. > > I'm sure you are right. > But I use rsync several times a day, and I have never received this message. > > It's not ugly, it is inexcusable.Yeah, well, but it's free. I'm not sure you can complain too much in that case. 8-) -- //Sorin