https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=11893
Bug ID: 11893 Summary: rsync should check local file access permission before connecting to remote end Product: rsync Version: 3.1.2 Hardware: All OS: All Status: NEW Severity: minor Priority: P5 Component: core Assignee: way...@samba.org Reporter: rami.le...@gmail.com QA Contact: rsync...@samba.org I'm using rsync to transfer large OS image files around and sometimes the local permissions change so that the sender does not have access to the source file any more. Having previously transferred the file there is already a file of matching size on the target host. Now attempting the transfer again rsync connects to the remote end and the remote end begins to do its checks before the transfer proper. Because the image file is large this will take a long time (10 minutes). After this rsync will report the "Permission denied" error for the local file. It would be more user-friendly to check the local file access permissions before doing anything time consuming and exit with an error as soon as possible. Please consider changing this behaviour. -- You are receiving this mail because: You are the QA Contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html