I have two identical (HW&SW) linux servers in my network. On both there is a user called qipadmin, which can access over SSH to each other. I wrote a perl script, which should copy files with rsync from one server to the other. Below is the rsync command in the script. The script is invoked by the root user.
system "su - qipadmin -c 'rsync -e ssh -p $otherip:/opt/named/current/conf/db.* /opt/named/current/conf --exclude *.jnl*'" rsync copies the files but the problem is, that the rsync command never exits (is hanging) and so the script cannot continue (unless I do manual kill of the rsync process): ps -ef | grep rsync root 21290 21259 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 su - qipadmin -c rsync -e ssh -p 10.10.1.242:/opt/named/current/conf/db.* /opt/named/current/conf --exclude *.jnl* qipadmin 21291 21290 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 rsync -e ssh -p 10.10.1.242:/opt/named/current/conf/db.* /opt/named/current/conf --exclude *.jnl* qipadmin 21384 21291 0 10:54 ? 00:00:00 rsync -e ssh -p 10.10.1.242:/opt/named/current/conf/db.* /opt/named/current/conf --exclude *.jnl* On the command line I can do the following without any problems (rsync exits successfully): su - qipadmin -c 'rsync -e ssh -p 10.10.1.242:/opt/named/current/conf/db.* /opt/named/current/conf --exclude *.jnl*' What is the difference between system "<cmd>" (perl) and <cmd> (shell command line)? Or is there a bug in rsync? additional infos: - rsync version: 2.5.7 - kernel: 2.4.32 - perl: 5.8.0 I hope there is somebody who can help me. I'm very frustrated. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
