rsync - Mar 2004 - Why does my cwrsync try to load ssh?

Just installed cwrsync 1.2.1 and I am getting this:

C:\cwrsync>rsync -n -v -r /cygdrive/c/robj/pickmeup 
speedball3:/cygdrive/d/robj/pickmeup
Failed to exec ssh : No such file or directory
rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(81)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)

Why in heaven's name is rsync trying to exec ssh when I am asking it to do 
nothing of the kind?

I've googled and searched the list archives and have found no mention of 
this particular problem :-(  I have removed all other traces of cygwin from 
this system.  At one point I think I did experiment with OpenSSH for 
Windows on this machine but I can find no remaining trace of that either.

All help appreciated and sorry for the newbie idiocy :-(
Cheers
Rob

It's trying to fire up ssh because your target has a single colon in it.

server:/path/to/stuff means "fire up ssh or rsh and make me a tunnel to 
server"

server::module/path/to/stuff means "try to access an rsync daemon on 
server and access path/to/stuff on module"

/path/to/stuff means "access /path/to/stuff on the local machine"

Hope that helps.

Jim Salter
> Just installed cwrsync 1.2.1 and I am getting this:
> 
> C:\cwrsync>rsync -n -v -r /cygdrive/c/robj/pickmeup 
> speedball3:/cygdrive/d/robj/pickmeup
> Failed to exec ssh : No such file or directory
> rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(81)
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)
> 
> Why in heaven's name is rsync trying to exec ssh when I am asking it to
> do nothing of the kind?
> 
> I've googled and searched the list archives and have found no mention
of
> this particular problem :-(  I have removed all other traces of cygwin 
> from this system.  At one point I think I did experiment with OpenSSH 
> for Windows on this machine but I can find no remaining trace of that 
> either.
> 
> All help appreciated and sorry for the newbie idiocy :-(
> Cheers
> Rob
>