From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Galeon/1.2.0 (X11; Linux i686; U;) Gecko/20020314 Description of problem: rsync-2.4.6-13 crashes on an attempt to connect to an anonymous FTP site when using the "-vr --delete" options. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. Enter the following into a term: "rsync -vr --delete ftp://anonymous@ftp.funet.fi:21/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/rawhide/i386/RedHat/RPMS/ Actual Results: Got an error: Failed to exec rsh : No such file or directory unexpected EOF in read_timeout Expected Results: Expected Results: Should've connected and downloaded the files ? I dunno, I just tryed rsync for the first time and it broke on me :o Additional info: I believe this problem is related to Bug #62452 (http://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62452) which I reported earlier when I ran into a similar problem, but only with a newer rsync package from rawhide.
*** Bug 62452 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
That means it couldn't exec rsh to connect to the other end, most likely because you don't have it installed.