Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Error on FreeBSD: "select: Bad file descriptor"

[Yann Golanski]

Quoth Keith Edmunds on Mon, Oct 04, 2004 at 10:27:32 +0100
> I would start by identifying which file rdiff-backup is trying to back up
> when the failure happens (or does it happen immediately?), and the if
> nothing obvious appears to be wrong with that file, try manually copying it
> to the other server to see if that can back it up.

It was /etc but it was failing before that since rdiff-backup was trying
to parse the output from w. 
 
> If "rdiff-backup --test-server" works, I'd say it is unlikely to be the
> fact that one machine is behind a firewall and the other not.

*nods* I thought it would be strange as well since all of it is going
via ssh.

Ah well, as is classical in the Internet, I found the solution a few
seconds after sending the message!  

Sorry about that folks.

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