[rdiff-backup-users] What's this error telling me?

[Chris G]

I'm getting this error when running rdiff-backup version 1.2.6 between
two xubuntu 8.10 systems:-

    address@hidden:/home/chris# rdiff-backup -v1 /home/ben 
address@hidden::/bak/chris/home/ben
    Traceback (most recent call last):
      File "/usr/local/bin/rdiff-backup", line 30, in <module>
        rdiff_backup.Main.error_check_Main(sys.argv[1:])
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
304, in error_check_Main
        try: Main(arglist)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/Main.py", line 
321, in Main
        rps = map(SetConnections.cmdpair2rp, cmdpairs)
      File 
"/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/SetConnections.py", line 
78, in cmdpair2rp
        return rpath.RPath(conn, filename).normalize()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
884, in __init__
        else: self.setdata()
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/rpath.py", line 
908, in setdata
        self.data = self.conn.rpath.make_file_dict(self.path)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 450, in __call__
        return apply(self.connection.reval, (self.name,) + args)
      File "/usr/local/lib/python2.5/site-packages/rdiff_backup/connection.py", 
line 370, in reval
        if isinstance(result, Exception): raise result
    rdiff_backup.Security.Violation: 
    Warning Security Violation!
    Bad request for function: rpath.make_file_dict
    with arguments: ['/bak/chris/home/ben']

    Fatal Error: Lost connection to the remote system

I *did* have a -restrict-update-only parameter at the remote end but
have now removed it and restarted sshd but I'm still getting the error.


-- 
Chris Green