Hi there, there is a problem (which as far as i know) is already known with rsync on FreeBSD: it is not possible to rsync neither fifos nor unix domain sockets (note that you have to be root there):
# mkfifo test # file test test: fifo (named pipe) # rsync -a test test2 mknod test2 : Invalid argument rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620) # file /var/run/log /var/run/log: socket # rsync -a /var/run/log test mknod test : Invalid argument rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620) There exists a patch for this problem which was originally written vom Andrew Flury in 2000 (see here: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-December/003349.html). Still, the recent versions of rsync (i.e. 2.5.6) have this behaviour. I wonder why nobody applied this patch to a release of rsync, although it works flawlessly. Any opinions on this? -- Yours, Dominik -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html