rsync-2.5.3pre1 preview release -- please try it

2002-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
Available now from samba.org and all mirrors. Please report bugs, compilation problems, etc. If there are no major issues I think I will put this out as 2.5.3 shortly, because it fixes a few serious issues. Thanks to everybody who contributed patches. rsync://samba.org/rsyncftp/preview/rsync

Re: rsync bug in clean_flist() while removing duplicted names

2002-02-18 Thread Adam Heath
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Thomas Osterried wrote: > hello, Huh? I don't care about this at all.

Re: push data instead of pull

2002-02-18 Thread tim . conway
Well, you'd expect the error message to tell you it's a read-only module, wouldn't you. Instead, it makes it look like the rsyncd isn't even there. in your module, add a line that says "read only = no". I agree that the error message could be clearer. It doesn't even complain in the server log.

Re: Debian bug #128632 && fork

2002-02-18 Thread Colin Walters
On Mon, 2002-02-18 at 17:53, Martin Pool wrote: > On 18 Feb 2002, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Martin Pool wrote: > > > Why the sleep() call? > > I guess the point is that the fork() probably failed because the > server is overloaded, and therefore there is no

Re: Debian bug #128632 && fork

2002-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
On 18 Feb 2002, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Martin Pool wrote: > > Why the sleep() call? I guess the point is that the fork() probably failed because the server is overloaded, and therefore there is no point trying to accept another connection again immediately

Re: Debian bug #128632 && fork

2002-02-18 Thread Wayne Davison
On Mon, 18 Feb 2002, Martin Pool wrote: > Why the sleep() call? Also, why close(fd) twice? > > + } else if (pid < 0) { > > + rprintf(FERROR, "could not create child process: %s\n", > > + strerror(errno)); > > + close(fd); >

Re: Debian bug #128632 && fork

2002-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
Why the sleep() call? On 16 Feb 2002, Colin Walters <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Index: socket.c > === > RCS file: /cvsroot/rsync/socket.c,v > retrieving revision 1.74 > diff -u -u -r1.74 socket.c > +++ socket.c 16 Feb 2002 23:08:47

Re: push data instead of pull

2002-02-18 Thread tim . conway
It won't go. only either the source or the destination can be remote. In your examples, you pretty much duplicate the documentation on the same topic: GENERAL There are six different ways of using rsync. They are: SunOS 5.7

push data instead of pull

2002-02-18 Thread Gautam Ganesh
Hi, I have a rsync server set up. Can i push data from the server to another machine instead of pulling data from that machine. when i try to do that i get this error. mkdir tohost:/tmp ; No such file or directory. But the directory exists. This is the command i executed. rsync -avz --rsync-

Re: --perms --owner --group --devices do not work

2002-02-18 Thread Martin Pool
On 12 Feb 2002, "C. Zimmermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello, > > the --perms --owner --group --devices options do not work. > > What is wrong ? Does anyone have an answer ? > > $RSYNC -a --copy-links --ignore-errors --stats --progress --recursive > ${RSYNCSERVER1}::${USER}/ In what way

Re: STDERR vs STDOUT?

2002-02-18 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 11:44:32AM -0500, Mack, Daemian wrote: > Hi all. I'm writing an installation script that uses Cygwin's bash.exe to > launch an rsync.exe process, which is passed arguments. This performs an > rsync over the Internet. > > I'd like to capture stdout to one file, and stderr

Re: Delete & rename with rsync servers

2002-02-18 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:03:32AM +0200, Einar Karttunen wrote: > Hello > > Is it possible to delete or rename > single files on remote rsync servers? You do need to be using -r (or -a) to be able to delete something so if you want to delete only a single file in a directory you'd need to exclu

rsync bug in clean_flist() while removing duplicted names

2002-02-18 Thread Thomas Osterried
hello, i use rsync as a major backend for our automatic debian GNU/linux workstation synchronisation project at the Free University of Berlin / Computer Science. my concept is, that rsync gets the class, group and machine-specific root-trees as argument, and it's up to him to find and automatica

Re: Updated: rsync-2.5.2-1

2002-02-18 Thread Lapo Luchini
> Rsync 2.5.2 has a data-destroying bug as described here: > > http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2002-January/005966.html > > Lapo, does Cygwin rsync-2.5.2-1 suffer from this bug? Based on your message > I should think it would. I strongly advise against upgrading until the bug > is fixed.