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known_hosts contains a list of servers.
because we have one of the servers rebuilt, the host key is changed, so we have to update the known_hosts file. How can we update the file for only one server's host-key ?

Thanks
YF

Can you see something strange in the installation log (Click details button during installation) ?

I have COPssh installed on a win xp sp2 system. It all runs ok until the system restarts. After restart, when I try to remotely ssh to the computer I get the following error:
ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host

The COPssh log has the following entry:

48125047 sshd 1748 fork_copy: linked dll data/bss pass 0 failed, 0x3DC000..0x3DC040, done 0, windows pid 3584, Win32 error 487

I am new to cwrsync. When I try to run a batch command (generated by the wizard) on the client, I invariably get: rsync: failed to connect to localhost: Connection refused (111)
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(98)
The port (default 9119) is open to both tcp and udp. Does anyone have any suggestions? I have been trying different things for several days now. The client is running windows 2003 server as is the server...The command is:
Command to run: "C:\Program Files\cwRsync\bin\rsync.exe" -avWz /cgdrive/c/rsyncf

Hi,
I'm giving up :-] I've been trying to get cwrsync 2.0.4 running with plink for about two hours, but it doesn't work.

First of all, this is what runs without any problems:
- cwrsync with the supplied ssh (requests password, that's what I want to avoid in the first place)
- plink -l user host (of course still requests password)
- plink -i path\to\key -l user host (that's what I want)

From that point of view I'd say everything should be fine and cwrsync + plink should work, too. Doesn't, though.

For the following, the rsync command is always

rsync -aznvvvvv . me@example.com:some/path

If I try to use plink as a 1:1 replacement for ssh, i.e. with password authentication, it doesn't ask for a password and just exists with "Access denied".

set RSYNC_RSH=plink

cmd= machine=example.com user=me path=some/path
cmd=plink -l me example.com rsync --server -vvvvvnlogDtprz . some/path
opening connection using plink -l st bitbrook.de rsync --server -vvvvvnlogDtprz . some/path
Access denied
Access denied
FATAL ERROR: Server sent disconnect message type 2
(SSH_DISCONNECT_PROTOCOL_ERROR): "Too many authentication failures for me"
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=434): entered
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=434): about to call exit(12)

Trying to use public key authentication gives me an "unexpectecdly closed" error. Authentication does work, however, as the server's sshd logs a successfull login.

set RSYNC_RSH=plink -i path\to\key

cmd= machine=example.com user=me path=some/path
cmd=plink.exe -i path/to/key -l me example.com rsync --server -vvvvvnlogDtprz .
opening connection using plink.exe -i "path\\to\\key" -l me example.com rsync --server -vvvvvnlogDtprz . some/path
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=189): entered
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(189)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=189): about to call exit(12)
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=434): entered
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(434)
_exit_cleanup(code=12, file=io.c, line=434): about to call exit(12)

Any idea's what's wrong?

Thanks a lot!

The log file says:
unable to bind any inbound sockets on port 873

The service appears to start and in about five seconds it stops. Any clues? netstat reveals nothing on port 873. I tried port 8730 in case it just did not like a privileged port.

OS: XP-Pro

Regards,
David Koski
david.nospham@kosmosisland.com

in the example for the FAQ on connecting without a password, the ssh command uses the -i flag and specifies the location for the private key file. I have had it working in the past where putting that file in the .ssh folder of the client's home path, named id_rsa, has worked. I currently cannot get that to work.
it will work if I specify the identity with -i. how can I get the client to look in the .ssh folder for the identity key?

Hi,
I am using Rsync on Windows to try and mirror a share onto a Linux box. The rsync is initiated by the Linux box (a NAS device actually), and I have the Rsync server (cwrsync) running as a service.

I have set CYGWIN=nontsec in the system environment and started the service. For a test I run the following command:

rsync -av 81.2.105.214::backup /cygdrive/c/temp

I then get the error "rsync: unable to chdir" and it exits.

I have ran this from the Linux box and get the same (though with a different destination obviously).

The rsync.conf is:

use chroot = false
strict modes = false
hosts allow = *
log file = rsyncd.log
pid file = rsyncd.pid

# Module definitions
# Remember cygwin naming conventions : c:\work becomes /cygwin/c/work
#

path = /cygdrive/d/agent
read only = true
transfer logging = yes

It is definitely making a connection to the service because if it is shut off we get connection refused.

Any ideas?
Thanks.
Andrew.

I try to connect ssh from cwRsync suite to sshd server, and all works right except windows (98) first wait for something during about 30 seconds, and only after that ssh connection occurs./ect/host and c:\windows\hosts are OK.

I guess that reason is in some windows settings, may be...
What could I do for get rid of such delay?

Hello,
I've recently installed COPSSH 1.3.6 on a Windows 2003 server.

The installation went well and I was able to activate a user, but
when I attempt to login from another machine I receive 3 password prompts and then a generic failure message.

What did I miss?

Thanks,

Tom

Hi guys, I got a very strange problem. Environment
SSH Server : Win2K server with COPSSH 1.33
SSH Client : open SSH client on HP-UX

I have a perl script running on Win2K server. It contains following line to get the timestamp of "now" :
============================
my ($sec,$min,$hour,$mday,$mon,$year,$wday,$yday,$isdst) = localtime(time);
============================

It works perfectly in DOS prompt, but If I login through SSH from the HP-UX server, in the bash and run the same perl script, the script returns timestamp which is always 9 hours behine the local time. (I am in Sydney GMT+9:00 hours)

I believe this is the timezone setting issue of COPSSH.

However, I have checked the Win2K server, the timezone setting is correct, so I suspect the COPSSH doesn't get the timezone information from the OS, so it just returns the GMT time instead of local time.

Have anyone experienced the same problem ? How to fix ?

Thanks for any feedback.

Cheers
YF

I recently made a mess when using rsync, and am wondering why. As I needed to backup a Windows machine on a regular basis I just mounted the C$ and D$ partitions on my Linux box, and used rsync to copy.
However, a few days later, the mail server on the Windows machine stopped working, as it had a load of corrupt files. After a day's work I managed to repair it with minimal loss of data, but need to know if it was caused by rsync.