The script I attached works. I use it weekly. To find out what you can rsync:

rsync mirror.ac.uk:: failed to connect to mirror.ac.uk - Connection refused

Seems like that mirror you trying to use doesn't allow you to use rsync in the fashion I use it.

rsync ftp1.sourceforge.net::

SourceForge.net public RSYNC server. This server offers high-capacity rsync mirrors/modules for several Open Source projects. To get a list of modules on this server: 'rsync download.sourceforge.net::' For http/ftp access to these files, go to: http://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/ ftp://download.sourceforge.net/pub/mirrors/ ********************************************************************** sourceforge SourceForge project files helix HelixCode Mirror mysql MySQL Primary Sync Archive nerdfest Nerdfest Linux Distro openssl OpenSSL postgresql PostgreSQL ftp progeny Progeny Linux openmotif OpenMotif Release Mirror gnome GNOME mirror . . .<cut> So ftp1.sourceforge.net allows anonymous rsyncing... rsync -av --stats ftp1.sourceforge.net::suse/suse/i386/7.1/ARCHIVES.gz /usr/local/ftp/pub/suse/i386/7.1/ ftp1.sourceforge.net::suse means ftp1 server with provided suse mirror tree. mk

From: Hans Fangohr To: Purple Shirt CC: suse-linux-e@suse.com Subject: Re: [SLE] mirror script Date: Tue, 22 May 2001 15:52:45 +0100 (BST)

On Mon, 14 May 2001, Purple Shirt wrote:

...

using rsync and ftp1.sourceforge.net:

...

cat rsync.sh

#! /bin/sh

# # # # Rsync script for SuSE mirror # # /etc/crontab: # 1 3 * * 5 root /etc/rsync/rsync.sh #

date "+rsync update begins at %Y/%m/%d %H:%M:%S"

echo "" echo "Updating from ftp1.sourceforge.net - 7.1-ARCHIVES.gz" rsync -av --stats ftp1.sourceforge.net::suse/suse/i386/7.1/ARCHIVES.gz /usr/local/ftp/pub/suse/i386/7.1/

Hmmm. That doesn't work for me. Neither with ftp1.sourceforge.net nor with ftp.mirror.ac.uk. The "::" is only for rsync machines it says in the man-page. Without it I get a bit further:

I try:

rsync -nav --progress --password-file=pdfwdfile --stats anonymous@mirror.ac.uk:/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/a1/ tmp/

I get the following output:

rsync -nav --progress --password-file=pdfwdfile --stats anonymous@mirror.ac.uk:/sites/ftp.suse.com/pub/suse/i386/update/7.1/a1/ tmp/ connect to address 148.88.2.11: Connection refused Trying 212.219.56.131... connect to address 212.219.56.131: Connection refused Trying 148.88.2.15... connect to address 148.88.2.15: Connection refused Trying 148.88.2.3... connect to address 148.88.2.3: Connection refused Trying 212.219.56.152...

I suppose, I am redirected to different mirror servers, but none accept me. If I log onto mirror.ac.uk via ftp, then it is no problem (i.e. it is unlikely there are no ports free).

How can I debug, what rsync is doing?

Regards,

Hans

---------------------------------------------- Hans Fangohr

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University of Southampton Highfield Southampton SO17 1BJ Great Britain fangohr@soton.ac.uk ----------------------------------------------

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