Re: Bug report: sender needs to have backup-dir

2004-04-02 Thread kenneth topp
You're correct. Here is the where it grabes you: rsync as server, getting something from a module, the server does a pushdir on the backup-dir that the client has. It's required to exist! So not really either, this get's you with new clients to either old or new servers.. have to dig back in

Re: Bug report: sender needs to have backup-dir

2004-04-02 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 09:25:51AM -0500, kenneth topp wrote: > rsync as server, getting something from a module, the server does a > pushdir on the backup-dir that the client has. It's required to exist! I can't duplicate that. What version is the daemon running? What command are you're runn

Running rsync without ssh

2004-04-02 Thread Richmond Dyes
What is the command structure for the "-e" flag to run rsync without the ssh shell? I am using rsync 2.5.7. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html

Re: Running rsync without ssh

2004-04-02 Thread Eric Whiting
If you are moving data across a network then you need a network transport mechanism. If you specify a [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dir in the source or destination then you need a transport. ssh is the default transport in 2.5.7. If you want to use rsh then you must specify -e rsh. (or another mechanism) I

Re: Problems with Rsync

2004-04-02 Thread Linux
I gave you recommended a try but it doesn't seem to fix the issue. Still recieving : rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (584 bytes read so far) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165) I've checked to make sure it's not a network issue and everything seems to be

Re: Running rsync without ssh

2004-04-02 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Apr 02, 2004 at 10:18:42AM -0700, Eric Whiting wrote: > ssh is the default transport in 2.5.7. Note that ssh only became the default in 2.6.0. However, the RSYNC_RSH environment variable is often used to set a different default. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://list

Re: Problems with Rsync

2004-04-02 Thread Tim Moore
> Notice that *.* is used , i did this so that i can get all the files in > the directory. I have also tried * as the variable. What does this do? 'n' is test run, shows actions, moves nothing. rsync -crzvvn --password-file /etc/rsync.passwd --bwlimit=120 rsync://[EMAIL PROTECTED]/pub/critical_f

Issue with rsync server 2.5.7 on OpenBSD 3.4.

2004-04-02 Thread Stas
Hi. Are there any known issues with running rsync as a inetd server, or a daemon, and connecting to it straight, without using any remote shell? When I try to connect, using rsync xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx::, or even a rsync localhost:: from the local machine , with a root user - it throws me the followi

Re: Issue with rsync server 2.5.7 on OpenBSD 3.4.

2004-04-02 Thread Wayne Davison
On Sat, Apr 03, 2004 at 12:05:16AM +0200, Stas wrote: > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far) Look in your syslog to see why the rsyncd is shutting down. One possibility is that the permissions/ownership of the secrets file (if you're using one) is wrong. ..wayne.. -- To u

Re: Problems with Rsync

2004-04-02 Thread Linux
I added the option that you mentioned and it actually got worse :( Doesn't even appear to have checked the files. -- Fri Apr 2 16:20:19 EST 2004 BEGIN NEW ENTRY FOR xxx.xxx.net opening tcp connection to xxx.xxx.net port 873 receiving file list ... done delta transmiss

--hard-link option now uses the first existing file - Excellent!

2004-04-02 Thread John Van Essen
With regard to this NEWS item from 2.6.1pre-1: * The --hard-link option now uses the first existing file in the group of linked files as the basis for the transfer. This prevents the sub-optimal transfer of a file's data when a new hardlink is added on the sending side and it sorts alphabet