rsync - Jun 2004 - possible writefd_unbuffered error; what am I screwing up this time

I am trying to execute rsync manually at a "remote" server to test out
--read-batch execution.

I created the batch files on another server and then rcp'ed them to the
"remote" server. I had some issues of not having the
correct working directory on the remote system when I did an rsh
"remote" rsync --read-batch ...... so I opened a telnet session
on the remote system and did the following command

rsync --backup --read-batch=brf --block-size=1000 /test/miki_briefcase

result was rsync:writefd_unbuffered failed to write 64 bytes: phase
"unknown": Broken Pipe

brf.rsync_argvs contains the following
rsync -acvv --rsh=rsh --backup --stats --read-batch=brf --block-size=1000
${1:-/test/miki_briefcase}

I have tried the command with and without -acvv --rsh --stats and it always
fails with the same message

I would appreciate any pointers as to what I am screwing up. I have chmod'ed
all the brf* files to 0777 and the execution account
owns all of them.

I also tried to do the rsh "remote" alternative from the
"local" server and it has a problem finding brf.rsync_flist. I
strongly suspect this
is because the rsh's rlogin is setting the working directory to /home/wally.

wally

On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:44:29PM -0400, Wallace Matthews
wrote:
> I have tried the command with and without -acvv --rsh --stats and it always
fails with the same message
You most definitely need -ac, though I think that -vv, --rsh, and
--stats may well be optional (you can test that).  If you're not
using the CVS version of rsync, also specify --no-whole-file (to work
around a bug in all known older versions with regard to batch-file
reading).

..wayne..

Thanks Wayne. That resulted in a successful execution.

I can now go work out my rsh issue.

wally

-----Original Message-----
From: Wayne Davison [mailto:wayned@samba.org]
Sent: Friday, June 18, 2004 1:55 PM
To: Wallace Matthews
Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: possible writefd_unbuffered error; what am I screwing up
this time


On Fri, Jun 18, 2004 at 01:44:29PM -0400, Wallace Matthews
wrote:
> I have tried the command with and without -acvv --rsh --stats and it always
fails with the same message
You most definitely need -ac, though I think that -vv, --rsh, and
--stats may well be optional (you can test that).  If you're not
using the CVS version of rsync, also specify --no-whole-file (to work
around a bug in all known older versions with regard to batch-file
reading).

..wayne..