[TriLUG] rsync connections

Chris Bullock cgbullock at cox.net
Sun Jan 4 16:51:08 EST 2004


On Sunday 04 January 2004 04:39 pm, Turnpike Man wrote:
> I'm trying to setup rsync, having some connection troubles.  Scenario:
>
> machine foo needs to rsync to machine poo.  (for backups of foo to poo).  I
> want to rsync /rtest on foo to /rtest2 on poo.  I tried this from foo:
>
> rsync -avz /rtest poo:/rtest2
>
> Connection refused.
>
> suggestios?  thanks.  after I get this working, I want to cron it for every
> 6 hours... and maybe also do my /home dir from foo to poo also.

I may be totally off but do you have your RSA keys set up so that each machine 
will accept connections without passwds?
--chris




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