Running Ancient Rsync

Another “write it down so I don’t forget what I did” post.

Some of the systems I’m responsible for are file storage machines, running rsync 3.0 or 3.1 as a daemon. Every hour, an ancient Solaris machine sends files to it using rsync 2.3.1. The billing team uses these files to create bills.

Thursday, I rebooted the machine. And the rsync stopped working with:

rsyncd[3582]: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver]

rsyncd[3582]: rsync error: error in rsync protocol...