On Mon, 29 Jun 2015 10:34:07 PM Sean Crosby wrote:
On 29 June 2015 at 22:00, Russell Coker <russell@coker.com.au> wrote:
Error1: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host
Error2: ssh_exchange_identification: Connection closed by remote host rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [Receiver] rsync error: unexplained error (code 255) at io.c(605) [Receiver=3.0.9]
I normally see this error when there's some authentication problem. In the past, it has either been due to hosts.deny/hosts.allow rules,
I think that the fact that it works from an interactive session rules out authentication problems.
or if the server has no daemons available for authentication (the MaxStartups value in sshd_config). I also think I've seen it when the nofile ulimit has been reached for the user trying to authenticate.
The default for MaxStartups is to rate limit connections when there are 10 unauthenticated connections and to stop them entirely when there are 60 unauthenticated connections. A quick inspection by ps indicates no unauthenticated connections so I don't think this is the issue.
Instead of trying an rsync, can you get the cron script to run a command via ssh, with max verbosity? e.g.
ssh -vvv user@server /usr/bin/id
just to see where the ssh process is failing?
That's a good idea. However the system in question has inconveniently started working again. I'll leave a cron job of that running until it breaks again. Thanks for the suggestions! -- My Main Blog http://etbe.coker.com.au/ My Documents Blog http://doc.coker.com.au/