Re: protocol error?

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Pool
On 7 Dec 2001, Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Martin, I don't think --enable-debug should define #DEBUG, I think it should > only generate debugging symbols. I think you're probably right. -- Martin

RE: move rsync development tree to BitKeeper?

2001-12-07 Thread David Bolen
> You can find a lot more information about the differences here: > > http://bitkeeper.com/4.1.1.html > > BitKeeper is not strictly Open Source, but arguably good enough. I guess "arguably" is if you don't mind having all your metadata logged to an open logging server? > The proposed plan is

Re: How Does Rsync Behave ?

2001-12-07 Thread Chao,Eisen R.
Hi All: I am going thru the documentation and I noticed that there is some talk about returning error codes. Some Q:s * If rsync encounters a network error, does it do retries ? Can you control the # of retries ? * Do the rsync client & server stop running upon encountering an error ? Can

Re: Cosmetic code cleanup?

2001-12-07 Thread Jos Backus
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:07:22AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > Yes, I agree. I'll just run GNU indent over it and commit directly -- > no need to send a big noisy patch unless you really want to. Good plan, I wasn't sure how many issues like these GNU indent is able to fix. I'll have a look agai

Should --write-batch always sync the target tree?

2001-12-07 Thread Jos Backus
Currently the --write-batch option in addition to creating the batch files also syncs the target tree. I'm not sure whether this is always desired. So far the only way I have been able to come up with to prevent the target tree from being populated is the patch below; however, the top-level targe

Re: using uid instead of USER or LOGNAME

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:53:17AM -0600, Holstein, Brian wrote: > Are there any known patches to use a users effective uid rather than the > environment variables USER or LOGNAME with an rsync server. Any suggestions > would be appreciated. The server doesn't use those variables, but the clien

using uid instead of USER or LOGNAME

2001-12-07 Thread Holstein, Brian
Are there any known patches to use a users effective uid rather than the environment variables USER or LOGNAME with an rsync server. Any suggestions would be appreciated.     _Brian Brian Holstein Sysadmin  SLK Hull derivatives

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-07 Thread tim . conway
The only circumstance where i could see symlink ownership being an issue would be in the case where one might need to be changed, on those systems which support that. Most i've seen delete and recreate the link, so if the person needing to own the link has write, with no sticky bit, on the co

Re: protocol error?

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 12:02:35PM +0900, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I recently upgraded one of my servers to 2.5.0. Since then, I've been > getting error messages like following between 2.5.0 and 2.4.6 servers. > > bit length overflow > code 3 bits 7->6 > code 10 bits 5->6

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-07 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:05:44AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: > On 7 Dec 2001, Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Please don't take this path - ownerships on symlinks are a pretty > > meaningless concept ... > > Why _not_ take the conservation approach "unless somebody reports a > >

Re: Cosmetic code cleanup?

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Pool
On 6 Dec 2001, Jos Backus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Here's a list of cosmetic changes I'd be willing to make to the code in order > to make it more consistent, which stylisticly it currently is not. > > - separate function definitions by 2 newlines > - put spaces after commas in arg lists > -

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Pool
On 7 Dec 2001, Cameron Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please don't take this path - ownerships on symlinks are a pretty > meaningless concept Right. For just this reason I just changed the regression test to use an included "tiny ls", rather than the system's ls, because on some systems

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 10:56:17AM +0100, Niels Andersen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | > | Does anybody run rsync on Apollo? | > Hell, they run it on Windoze :-( I know what I'd rather use. | Huh? In stead of Windows, or in stead of rsync? :) | | There's a lot of Windows-users out there, and I thi

Re: move rsync development tree to BitKeeper?

2001-12-07 Thread Martin Pool
Incidentally, here's an interesting BitKeeper demostration/tutorial: http://www.bitkeeper.com/demo/ -- Martin

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-07 Thread Niels Andersen
> | Does anybody run rsync on Apollo? > Hell, they run it on Windoze :-( I know what I'd rather use. Huh? In stead of Windows, or in stead of rsync? :) There's a lot of Windows-users out there, and I think rsync is a great tool on Windows-systems too. :) No OS-wars here, just wanted to know if