Topic: rsync between two SME servers

[eiceic]

version 7.1.3 on both servers

Any idea what this Bad ttyname: -c means?

[root@rdsql files]# /usr/bin/rsync  /home/e-smith/files/ibays/offsite/files admin@mail.thedomain.com:/home/e-smith/files/ibays/rd_backup/files
admin@mail.thedomain.com's password:
Bad ttyname: -c
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]
rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(453) [sender=2.6.9]


Thanks,

Chris Buechler

[haymann]

I would be interested in knowing what that means as well. A few months back I was trying to use ssh and/or scp to transfer files between two SME servers and got the same thing. I was never able to get anywhere with it.

[Gaston94]

user admin has no default shell
no tty can be attached to a sessions started for this user, and prompting for a password is something which involve tty usage

You should either consider:
 -using a user with a valid login shell
 - configured a ssh key based connection (gather for "ssh without password" on google) and use rsync through ssh

G.

[eiceic]

option #1 worked great -- thanks