Steve Greenland writes: > And for the record, I get the hang regardless of my '-v' setting (anywhere > from 0-4 "v"s). I was recently getting rsync 2.5.6 choking on me on certain very large files when I was trying to RSYNC SuSE Linux 8.2 from ftp.nrc.ca. Here's what I was getting: receiving file list ... 6063 files to consider suse/src/es... suse/src/OpenOffice_org-1.0.2-37.src.rpm rsync: read error: Connection reset by peer rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(177) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (217137 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) I wondered if something in the compression stream might be causing problems so I removed the -z option from the command line, and suddenly it's working for me. Your mileage may vary, but I thought I'd throw that data point out there to see if it helped you or anyone else. Sincerely, Argentium -- Argentium G. Tiger (ag42tiger@king42ston.net) Linux is like a wigwam - no Windows, no Gates, and an Apache inside! There are no numbers in my real email address.