rsync - Feb 2003 - Newbie Question

Hi,
This is a very simple question I realise, but I hope maybe someone can just
help me out.

I am trying to do a very simple thing, just transfer a file from machine A
to machine B using rsync with ssh.

This is what i'm typing:

bash-2.03# rsync -avvv --rsh="ssh -l tdf"
tdf@machine.niss.ac.uk:/export/home/tdf/demofile.html demofile.html

This is what I get:

opening connection using ssh -l tdf machine.niss.ac.uk -l tdf
rsync --server --sender -vvvlogDtpr . /export/home/tdf/demofile.html
tdf@machine.niss.ac.uk's password:
bash: rsync: command not found
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=150): about to call exit(12)

Basically it seems to go wrong after logging into the remote machine when it
says "rsync: command not found".

rsync is definately installed on both machines and is in the user tdf's
environment path. So I don't understand why it says "rsync: command not
found"...?

Any help getting this sorted would be VERY much appreciated...?

Many thanks,
Tom
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Tom Freeman
Web Developer
NISS - EduServ
+44 (0)1225 474371

Hi,
I finally got rsync to work, it seems it didn't like being located in
/usr/local/bin/rsync, so I created a symbolic link from there to
/usr/bin/rsync and all worked fine!

My next problem is that it is prompting me to enter a password each time I
run it. I really want rsync to run automatically via a cronjob. Is there a
way to send the password to rsync so I don't have to enter it manually every
time?????

Many thanks,
Tom
--
Tom Freeman
Web Developer
NISS - EduServ
+44 (0)1225 474371
----- Original Message -----
From: "wim delvaux" <wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com>
To: "Tom Freeman" <tom.freeman@eduserv.org.uk>
Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:23 PM
Subject: Re: Newbie Question

> On Thursday 27 February 2003 16:19, you wrote:
> > Hi,
> > thanks for the reply,
> > yeah i've checked the PATH and rsync is definately in the user
tdf's
path
> > on both machines (i'm running rsync as using tdf). However it is
not in
> > roots path... but as i'm not running as root I guess this
doesn't
> > matter...? cheers,
>
> What you also could try is to run strace on the remote's sshd daemon.
and
see
> what is going on
> Perhaps the sequence is
> sshd (as root) forks sshd forks rsync which setuid ?
>
>
>
> > Tom
> > --
> > Tom Freeman
> > Web Developer
> > NISS - EduServ
> > +44 (0)1225 474371
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: "wim delvaux" <wim.delvaux@adaptiveplanet.com>
> > To: "Tom Freeman" <tom.freeman@eduserv.org.uk>
> > Sent: Thursday, February 27, 2003 3:00 PM
> > Subject: Re: Newbie Question
> >
> > > Make sure that the PATH variable is setup properly
> > >
> > > W
>
>