Looks like a fix for that went into 2.5.0. See revision 1.87 at http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/io.c
Tim & David, what version are you running? 2.5.2 has some serious problems, Eric. Try the latest development snapshot at rsync://rsync.samba.org/ftp/unpacked/rsync/ or ftp://rsync.samba.org/pub/unpacked/rsync/ - Dave Dykstra On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 11:33:43AM -0700, Eric Whiting wrote: > Make that 2 of us who need to specify a large timeout. > > I have found that I have to set the timeout to a large value (10000) to > get the rsyncs to run successfully. Leaving it at the default seemed to > cause timeout/hang problems. Of course I still running a 2.4.6dev > version. I had troubles with 2.5.[01]. (solaris/linux mix of of rsync > clients/servers) > > I need to try 2.5.2 as soon as I get a chance. Looks like some good > fixes are happening in 2.5.2. > > eric > > > > On Wed, 2002-02-06 at 10:39, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > When i was getting these, I traced the process and its children (solaris: > > truss -f). I found that one of the spawned threads was experiencing an io > > timeout while the filelist was building. I had set no timeout, but it did > > it at 60 seconds every time. I found that this corresponded to a > > SELECT_TIMEOUT parameter, which was set to 60 if IO_TIMEOUT was 0. BY > > setting my timeout to 86400 (1 day), i stopped those. Of course, then, it > > choked farther along, but that's another story. > > Try setting a timeout, even if you don't want one. Make it the longest > > the process should ever take. > > > > Tim Conway > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 303.682.4917 > > Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC > > 1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D > > Longmont, CO 80501 > > Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, n9hmg on AIM > > perl -e 'print pack(nnnnnnnnnnnn, > > 19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), > > ".\n" ' > > "There are some who call me.... Tim?" > > > > > > > > > > Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > 02/06/2002 10:16 AM > > > > > > To: David Birnbaum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS) > > Subject: Re: SIGUSR1 or SIGINT error > > Classification: > > > > > > > > On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:28:54AM -0500, David Birnbaum wrote: > > > I suspected that might be the case...now...how to determine the "real" > > > problem? Does rsync log it somewhere? lsof shows that STDERR/STDOUT > > are > > > going to /dev/null, so I hope it's not writing it there. Nothing > > > informative in syslog, just the message about the SIG: > > > > > > Feb 5 09:49:41 hite rsyncd[9279]: [ID 702911 daemon.warning] rsync > > error: received SIGUSR1 or SIGINT (code 20) at rsync.c(229) > > > > > > Any clues? > > > > > > I'm sorry, but I don't have any more suggestions. > > > > - Dave Dykstra > > > > > > > > > > >