On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: > > >Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu> > >To: Bruce Dobrin <dobrin at imageworks dot com> > >Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:33:05 -0500 (EST) > >Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 > >References: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com > > >On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Bruce Dobrin wrote: > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I have been using rsync via rsh (-e "rsh") for our general distributions > >> for a for all of our windows and Linux machines ( 2000 of them) . on > >> Upgrading from cygwin1.5.5 to 1.5.9, Rsync could no longer use rsh to > >> rsync. > >> > >> I get : "rsh : unknown option -- server" > >> I down graded the rsync2.6.0 from the cyg1.5.9 install to the 2.5.6 version > >> from the cyg1.5.5 version and got the same problem. I restored the rsync to > >> 2.6.0 and copied the rsh.exe from the inetutils-1.3.2-25 from the cyg1.5.5 > >> install and rsync started working again. > >> > >> Is there a known bug or known workaround for using the most recent version > >> of rsh ( from 1.3.2-26)? > >> thanks. > >> Bruce Dobrin > >> > >> example: rsync -rluzv -e "rsh" --timeout=100 --size-only > >> matilda:/c/dist_and_install_files/dist/sysadm_general/ /c/ > >> > >> rsh : unknown option -- server > ?> > >WAG: check text/binary settings on the connection (e.g., does $CYGWIN > >contain "nobinmode"?). Also check with ssh. > >Igor > > Igor, > Thank you for answering. > Using ssh works fine ( well, it works as well as rsync has ever worked > anyway ;-) ). My $CYGWIN is a fairly standard : binmode tty ntsec > > ssh is not really an option for us though;our facility is locked down hard > so internally we don't use ssh at all but depend on rsh.. I'd like to keep > our rsh current though, but to keep it working I have had to replace the > newer rsh with the older one... eventually I'm afraid this will bite me in > the butt. should I talk to the rsync people? it looks like rsync is > passing a switch "--server" that is being picked up incorrectly by the newer > rsh and not the older one... ( if I type: BASH > rsh --server > I get the same response: "rsh: unknown option -- server" ), > > Thanks for your continuing help > Bruce---
Oh. This may have something to do with the argument permutation in the "getopt" call, which was introduced at some point. Try (a) setting the POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable before calling rsync, or (b) giving the '-e "rsh --"' option instead of '-e "rsh"' (don't know if rsync will allow this, though). Igor -- http://cs.nyu.edu/~pechtcha/ |\ _,,,---,,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] ZZZzz /,`.-'`' -. ;-;;,_ [EMAIL PROTECTED] |,4- ) )-,_. ,\ ( `'-' Igor Pechtchanski, Ph.D. '---''(_/--' `-'\_) fL a.k.a JaguaR-R-R-r-r-r-.-.-. Meow! "I have since come to realize that being between your mentor and his route to the bathroom is a major career booster." -- Patrick Naughton -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/