2.6.4 Potential protocol-corrupting bug

2005-03-31 Thread Steve Harris
Hi all, I was just wondering if the following bugfix in 2.6.4 was a serious problem that could cause a problem in a destination file and if it did would that get picked up by the checksum ? Cheers - Steve - Fixed a potential protocol-corrupting bug where the generator could merge a messag

Re: mkstemp fails but data still transferred

2005-03-24 Thread Steve Harris
I like this a lot - the '--create-fail-action=abort' option would suit me perfectly - if the creation of the temporary file fails then simply abort the transfer. Nice. Cheers - Steve An option to specify action would help more, IMHO. Since there is no two-way chatter, the choices are obviously

Re: mkstemp fails but data still transferred

2005-03-23 Thread Steve Harris
I see and it makes sense to optimise the file transfer process, but in carrying on with a transfer when the temporary file cannot be created can (in our case) result in quite a large amount of data being transferred over the network (we have more than a few files in the 6-8GB range) which is not op

Re: mkstemp fails but data still transferred

2005-03-22 Thread Steve Harris
ength); } I'm confused why this is the case - is there a reason why this is done ? Cheers all - Steve He didn't administer a reign of terror, just the occasional light shower. - Terry Pratchett, Sourcery On Tue, 22 Mar 2005, Steve Harris wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm running

mkstemp fails but data still transferred

2005-03-22 Thread Steve Harris
Hi all, I'm running rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 on Solaris 8 and am having a problem. We have some scripts that wrap around rsync and generate a list of files to transfer from the sending system (regardless of whether that directory exists on the receiver). I was expecting rsync to