What steps will reproduce the problem? Set up a remote server using ssh to a FreeNAS box What is the expected output? What do you see instead? Neither rsync nor git-annex are installed rsync is in the path, user with permissions is able to run it What version of git-annex are you using? On what operating system? 4.20130227 OSX Please provide any additional information below. ssh keys were installed to allow login, when ssh-askpass was not found on osx version [[!meta title="webapp rsync probe command failed on FreeNAS box"]] [[!tag /design/assistant]] > [[done]]; based on the error message it's using csh and > the assistant will now wrap its shell commands to work with csh. > --[[Joey]]