On May 16 13:30:00, falsif...@falsifian.org wrote:
> On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 11:02:23AM +0200, Claudio Jeker wrote:
> > On Fri, May 14, 2021 at 12:44:45AM +0300, Irshad Sulaiman wrote:
> > > Hi
> > >
> > > I have modified error in openrsync(1) manpage in Example section isn’t
> > > that ‘openrsync -t' instead of 'rsync -t ‘
> > > And without --rsync-path= it gives an following error 'openrsync: error:
> > > unexpected end of file’
> >
> > I did try all three examples and they do work for me without adding
> > --rsync-path=. On which command did you get the unexpected result.
> > Can you share the exact way to reproduce this issue?
>
> Did you have rsync installed on the remote machine?
>
> My understanding was that by default, openrsync expects "rsync" to be
> installed on the destination machine. Probably "rsync" can just be a
> symlink to openrsync; I'm not sure.
>
> It would be nice if the openrsync man page described how things are
> expected to work. Something like the following (I don't know if it's
> correct):
>
> By default, openrsync expects the command "rsync" to be available
> on the remote machine. You can override it to use openrsync with
> --rsync-path=/usr/bin/openrsync. It is also sufficient to make
> rsync an alias for openrsync on the remote machine.
Currently, the man page says
--rsync-path=program
Run program on the remote host instead of the default rsync.
which to me seems to say the same thing,
without the verbiage and the symlinks/alias confusion.
