Question

I am unsure why is this rsync command is not syncing?

rsync -v -e [e-mail]:/var/log/apache2/USAGE-log.txt splunk-rync-logs/log.txt

I see this returned after that command which appears OK.

building file list ... done
-rw-r--r--           0 2012/03/26 19:28:00 log.txt

sent 28 bytes  received 12 bytes  80.00 bytes/sec
total size is 0  speedup is 0.00

BUT no data is added to the local file that is supposed to be being synced with the remote file:

ls -al
total 0
drwxr-xr-x   3 bd  staff   102 Mar 26 19:28 .
drwxr-xr-x+ 54 bd  staff  1836 Mar 26 19:28 ..
-rwxrwxrwx   1 bd  staff     0 Mar 26 19:28 log.txt

Any advice?

Answer 1

The syntax for the -e option (rsync version 3.0.8 protocol version 30) is:

-e, --rsh=COMMAND           specify the remote shell to use

For use such as -e 'ssh -p 2234'.

Maybe you have a different version, but that’s where I’d start looking.