rsync not working from python code

[Bill W]

May  9 14:34:27 localhost weewx[27291]: wxengine: Starting up weewx version 2.6.3
...
May  9 14:40:18 localhost weewx[27291]: reportengine: Running report RSYNC
May  9 14:40:18 localhost weewx[27291]: reportengine: Found configuration file /etc/weewx/skins/Rsync/skin.conf for report RSYNC
May  9 14:40:18 localhost weewx[27291]: rsyncupload: rsync invocation: rsync --archive --delete -e ssh /var/www/html/weewx/ bi...@myhost.com:/var/www/html
May  9 14:40:18 localhost weewx[27291]: rsyncupload: rsync reported: rsync: Failed to exec ssh: Permission denied (13)#012rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at pipe.c(84) [sender=3.0.6]#012rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender]#012rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14) at io.c(600) [sender=3.0.6]


So this looks like a problem on the receiver.

[root@localhost weewx]# rsync --archive --delete -e ssh /var/www/html/weewx/ bi...@myhost.com:/var/www/html
[root@localhost weewx]#

Hmmm, this command actually works.  So what is causing this?

From a post I found I did a python test:

import os
os.system( "rsync -e 'ssh -v' --archive --delete /var/www/html/weewx/ bi...@myhost.com:/var/www/htm")

Sure enough,
debug1: Sending command: rsync --server -logDtpre.iLs --delete . /var/www/htm
rsync: mkdir "/var/www/htm" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at main.c(576) [receiver=3.0.6]

So instead of just using ssh for transfer this is trying to start an rsync server on the receiver.

So there is the problem.  Unfortunately I have no idea of how to fix.  I can certainly crontab the rsync but can I make this behave correctly instead?

Thanks,
Bill

[Bill W]

Amendment:

From the python instance this DOES work when I type the correct directory.

os.system( "rsync -e 'ssh -v' --archive --delete /var/www/html/weewx/ bi...@myhost.com:/var/www/html"

So this works but still fails from the weewx code as stated above.

Sorry for the confusion.
Bill