Centos cannot login by console or ssh session closed immediately
In my case I could login with the initial install but I rsync'd everything over while preserving ownership and permissions to another RAID partition and booted from that.was fine before. The problem is that you are kicked out the second you login and the problem was SELINUX for some reason (perhaps it noticed something strange when it was moved to the new partition)
login: pam_unix(login:session): session opened for user root by LOGIN(uid=0)
login: ROOT LOG........
rsync my favorite/best/optimal default switches and options
Not sure what rsync switches/options to use?
rsync -PDrphogtl
The short version would be:
rsync -Pha
I think these are really common sense options to use and probaby should be the default.
Explanation of rsync switches
P = display the progress
D = hybrid of --specials and --devices so all special and device files will be copied as well.
r = recursive (otherwise rsync won't copy files deeper than........