Thank you Igor! Both of those work perfectly. As usual, you hit it dead on. Bruce D.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Bruce Dobrin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:39 PM Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9 > 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/ > -- 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/
