On Mon, Feb 04, 2002 at 12:24:02PM -0500, David Birnbaum wrote: > Howdy, > > We occassionally get the following error when running our nightly > backups: > > rsync error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at rsync.c(229) > > This happens more on one or two machines than on any of the others. We've > looked high and low to see if we're mistakenly sending these signals, but > nothing is that we can find. > > Does anyone know what this might be from? Is it the server or the client > that's complaining about the signal?
The side of rsync that receives files forks into two processes, and one sends the other a SIGUSR1 when it experiences a problem. So this is probably a symptom of your real problem, not the real problem. - Dave Dykstra
