Re: bug report

2002-05-10 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 12:50:59PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Fri, 10 May 2002, terrell Larson wrote: > > The [option-specifying form] of the -e option is not documented. > > IMHO it should be. > > I agree. I've whipped up the following patch for rsync.yo, which I > will commit to CVS in a

http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/ 404 not found

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Barnett
136 BUG REPORTS 137 --- 138 139 If you have web access then please look at 140 http://rsync.samba.org/rsync/ 141 142 This will give you access to the bug tracking system used by the 143 developers of rsync and will allow you to look at other bug reports or

Parsing output, separating motd and module-list

2002-05-10 Thread Niels Andersen
I'm working on a frontend to rsync, and I've got a problem. It's easy to get a list of files and directories from a specific path on an rsync server. But from the root, I've found it very difficult to get a list of modules. I cannot see when the modt stops, and when the list begins. Can anybod

bug in rsyncd.conf - email #3

2002-05-10 Thread pyxl
And today is apparently my day to put *both* feet in my mouth concurrently. The behavior is still being evinced on the server side, even with a correctly syntaxed exclude line. *sigh* Oh well. At this point, I'm going to stop posting to the list about this. -- To unsubscribe or change opti

Regarding possible bug rsyncd.conf 2.5.5

2002-05-10 Thread pyxl
Please ignore that email. I just realized my error - missing the all important = on the line. DUH. *shakes head* Sorry folks. Scott -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Possible exclude bug in 2.5.5 in rsyncd.conf

2002-05-10 Thread pyxl
Hello all, I've found some behavior in 2.5.5 that is contrary to the documentation in the man page. Specifically, I'm running an rsync server (i.e. from inetd with --daemon),and in the module definition I'm specifying the line "exclude nosyncdir". The documentation for rsyncd.conf indicates

Re: bug report

2002-05-10 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, 10 May 2002, terrell Larson wrote: > If rsync is directed to copy a directory tree into another machine and > the target directory does not exist then rsync will not create the > required path Dave Dykstra just recently responded to another user that this is the intended behavior of rsync

bug report

2002-05-10 Thread terrell Larson
I'm new to this list and I hope this is the proper way to submit a bug. If not then please advise. Also I'm not a list subscriber so please email me directly and cc the list if appropriate. I beleive I have found a bug in rsync. It is reproducable and easy to confirm. summary: === If r

Re: wildcards

2002-05-10 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, 10 May 2002, Dave Dykstra wrote: > If you dynamically created a */*/*/foo/* pattern with the number of */ > to match the current path it would only have to call fnmatch once. That's assuming the pattern doesn't contain an interior/trailing "**" (which could only use the try-after-each-sla

Re: Preserve TARGET perms, user and group would be nice

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
I'm sorry, I don't understand what you're asking for. Please give a simple example, including the rsync command line you use that gives you the undesired results. - Dave Dykstra On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 02:26:17PM +0200, Mark Pitt wrote: > > > > Using --existing, I would like to transfer file

Re: wildcards (was Re: a problem I'm having with rsync-4.5.4)

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 05:42:41PM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Thu, 9 May 2002, Dave Dykstra wrote: > > How many times would you have to call fnmatch for every file? > > We'd call fnmatch() an extra time for every slash in the path. However, > the performance hit of this new loop on the pat

Re: openssh 3.1 and rsync dont work

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
I took a look in the rsync CVS; the change to rsync that (unintentionally) prevented this problem was put into version 2.4.6 by Andrew Tridgell: http://cvs.samba.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/rsync/main.c.diff?r1=1.126&r2=1.124 I'm still concerned that we might run into a problem with ignored signals b

Re: Avoid 'Connection reset by peer' on cygwin - agree hold untilafter 2.5.6 and note to Lapo Luchini

2002-05-10 Thread Lapo Luchini
Max Bowsher wrote: >>I think it might be too risky for 2.5.6 and perhaps should wait to 2.6.0. >> >>- Dave >> >> > >Yes, now the small fix has turned into a multi-source file minor redesign, lets >hold it until after 2.5.6 - at least for the standard release. > >To Lapo Luchini: Maybe this

Avoid 'Connection reset by peer' on cygwin - agree hold until after 2.5.6 and note to Lapo Luchini

2002-05-10 Thread Max Bowsher
> I think it might be too risky for 2.5.6 and perhaps should wait to 2.6.0. > > - Dave Yes, now the small fix has turned into a multi-source file minor redesign, lets hold it until after 2.5.6 - at least for the standard release. To Lapo Luchini: Maybe this could go into the cygwin 2.5.6-1 as a

Re: Status Query - Please respond - Re: Patch to avoid 'Connection reset by peer' error for rsync on cygwin

2002-05-10 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Thu, May 09, 2002 at 04:22:45PM -0700, Martin Pool wrote: > On 9 May 2002, Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > The answer has to come from Martin and I haven't seen anything posted > > from him lately, he must be unavailable. > > Sorry, I've been out of town this week. > > > On Tue,

Preserve TARGET perms, user and group would be nice

2002-05-10 Thread Mark Pitt
Using --existing, I would like to transfer files created by root to home dirs, where the files would be updated, but leave the user,group and perms as they were. ie root creates a new file on the sending system, rsyncs it to the home dir of the user, leaving the perms untouched. Seems there i

Re: Using rsync to sync up password file

2002-05-10 Thread Michael Zimmermann
At Friday 10 May 2002 14:15 Bove, Lui wrote: > Is it possible to use rsync to synchronize the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, > /etc/shadow- files under linux? If you dare to, why not? .o) -- Michael Zimmermann (Vegaa Safety and Security for Internet Services) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> phone +49 89 6283 7

Re: openssh 3.1 and rsync dont work

2002-05-10 Thread Mark Pitt
Bug seems to have been fixed in -current release ( SSH Bug 182 ) not sure when this will be available/official. Going to stick to 2.9.9 on the one machine until resolved. Mark Pitt SP Administrator IBM, Campus Winterthur 058-333-1542 Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 09.05.2002 16:34:57

Using rsync to sync up password file

2002-05-10 Thread Bove, Lui
Title: Using rsync to sync up password file Is it possible to use rsync to synchronize the /etc/passwd, /etc/shadow, /etc/shadow- files under linux? Lui Bove AIM Funds Management Inc. 5140 Yonge St. Toronto, Ont. M2N 6X7 Tel: 416-228-3664 Fax: 416-590-7742 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]

rsync & cron

2002-05-10 Thread Jiri Cvrk
hello,   when I use rsync from commandline (RH 7.2, ssh2), it works fine. rsync -e ssh -a -v  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/samba/m/aaa.txt  /home/m/aaa.txt but when I try to use it in crontab such as 33 11 * * * rsync -e ssh -a -v  [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/samba/m/aaa.txt  /home/m/aaa.txt or 33 11

Re: openssh 3.1 and rsync dont work - BUTssh 2.9.9.p1 does !

2002-05-10 Thread Mark Pitt
We have AIX 4.3.3 ML09 and AIX 5.1 ML01 I have narrowed the problem down, it is nothing to do with uni/multiprocessor machines. Both rsync 2.3.1 compiled by Bull in an installp and a gcc compiled version of 2.4.5 ( by me ) both have exactly the same problem with SSH 3.1.p1 and both DONT have t

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Re: Status Query - Please respond - Re: Patch to avoid 'Connection reset by peer' error for rsync on cygwin

2002-05-10 Thread Max Bowsher
Martin Pool <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Sorry, I've been out of town this week. No problem. > This is the shutdown one, right? I wanted to check about portability > before we put it in. Snader's "Effective TCP/IP Programming" says that > > shutdown(fd, 1); > > is OK on both Unix and Windows