How to fix “rsync: Failed to exec ssh: No such file or directory” ?
I was getting following error while trying to copy one file to another server using rsync
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[root@test ~]# rsync -avz -e 'ssh -p 22' text.tar.gz myuser@192.168.2.88:/home/myuser/ rsync: Failed to exec ssh: No such file or directory (2) rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(84) [sender=3.0.9] rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at io.c(605) [sender=3.0.9] |
As you can see the error message is
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rsync: Failed to exec ssh: No such file or directory (2) |
This error means rsync is not able to locate the openssh client on the machine.
How to fix “rsync: Failed to exec ssh: No such file or directory”?
This can be fixed by installing the openssh client packages . On a Centos machine , you can install it using yum , see the following example
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~]# yum install openssh-clients Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, ovl Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile * base: mirror.cogentco.com * extras: mirror.vcu.edu * updates: centos.mbni.med.umich.edu Resolving Dependencies --> Running transaction check ---> Package openssh-clients.x86_64 0:6.6.1p1-35.el7_3 will be installed --> Processing Dependency: libedit.so.0()(64bit) for package: openssh-clients-6.6.1p1-35.el7_3.x86_64 --> Running transaction check ---> Package libedit.x86_64 0:3.0-12.20121213cvs.el7 will be installed --> Finished Dependency Resolution Dependencies Resolved =================================================================================================================================================================================== Package Arch Version Repository Size =================================================================================================================================================================================== Installing: openssh-clients x86_64 6.6.1p1-35.el7_3 updates 642 k Installing for dependencies: libedit x86_64 3.0-12.20121213cvs.el7 base 92 k Transaction Summary =================================================================================================================================================================================== Install 1 Package (+1 Dependent package) |
After this rsync was working properly.