rsync error code 5, wrong password
February 25th, 2008 Posted in computingI just got the following error whilst trying to make an rsync transfer:
rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1296) [sender=2.6.8]
I couldn’t figure out what the issue was for a little while, I tried running the rsync command several times and entered the password when prompted. Unfortunately the error message provided (code 5) didn’t really help. It turned out that I had CAPS LOCK on and the password I was entering was incorrect. Silly mistake, but hopefully this will save someone searching for this rsync error some time.