Re: [IBMiOSS] Issue with rsync

["Diego E. Kesselman" <diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi Pete,

You can fix this adding :

--rsync-path=/QOpenSys/pkgs/bin/rsync

BTW: You can remove the "-e ssh”


Diego E. Kesselman
diegokesselman@xxxxxxxxx



> El 04/10/2021, a las 07:11, Pete Helgren <pete@xxxxxxxxxx> escribió:
>
>
> Trying to run rsync from a linux box to IBM i. I found some older articles about how to set it up and it certainly is easy to install.  But, I am trying to understand what is needed at the IBM i end of things to allow rsync to run.  I have SSH configured and when I run an rsync command to synchronize files I get this error (not real domains):
>
> [phelgren@873822-prodLR70 test]$ rsync -avz -e ssh pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx:/home/pete ./
> pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx's password:
> bsh: rsync: not found
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.2]
>
> I can connect using ssh with both a password and a private key so that is working.  But, the rsync command doesn't seem to be found (although bsh as a shell is odd...or not) and I can run rsync in the pase bash shell and linux with no problems.
>
> Suggestions?
>
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