rsync - Jan 2002 - error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(139)

When trying to connect to a rsync server (sparc.solaris.2.6) from a 
linux machine (redhat 6.2).

# rsync machine.upo.es
ksh: rsync:  not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(139)

Both machines have 2.5.1 version of rsync code, compiled from scratch. 
rsh is working
properly when rsync is not in scene.

Thank you in advance for your help,
--
V?ctor Hern?ndez
Centro de Inform?tica y Comunicaciones
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, de Sevilla

As you see in the response, ksh can't find rsync (ksh: rsync:  not found),
and this is included in the error stream of rsync (rsync: connection
unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)).  This means rsync is trying to run
rsync, which means that you're using
external transport (single-colon (:) syntax).  If by "trying to connect to
a rsync server" you mean "connect to a server using rsync over
external transport", you
just need to make it possible for your local rsync to find the rsync 
binary on that server.  There are several ways to do that.  Change the 
global path on the remote system to include the location where the rsync 
binary is kept, copy or link said binary somewhere into the path or put a 
wrapper script named rsync in the path which just invokes the real one 
with the same args (a symlink is better), or, least intrusively, use 
'--rsync-path='.
If, in fact, you do have a rsync server running on the remote host, and 
you want to contact that, use double colons '::' to seperate the
hostname
from the module name.  The rsync manpage covers these, and other 
rsync-related topics in exquisite detail.

Tim Conway
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"Victor J. Hernandez Gomez" <vjhergom@cic.upo.es>
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When trying to connect to a rsync server (sparc.solaris.2.6) from a 
linux machine (redhat 6.2).

# rsync machine.upo.es
ksh: rsync:  not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(139)

Both machines have 2.5.1 version of rsync code, compiled from scratch. 
rsh is working
properly when rsync is not in scene.

Thank you in advance for your help,
--
V?ctor Hern?ndez
Centro de Inform?tica y Comunicaciones
Universidad Pablo de Olavide, de Sevilla