- without issue.
I'm totally stumped here. Can anyone help?
Thanks in advance...
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an rsync problem at all, except
in that rsync is apparently FAR less tolerant of network problems than ftp
or smbclient.
Thanks for your help.
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the
existence of anyone going by root.
Hope that helped.
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- Original Message -
From: Max Kipness [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, September 09, 2003 9:18 AM
Subject: Operation not permitted?
Hello,
Can someone tell me what
useful in an awful lot of situations.
Thanks for listening.
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, for
use e.g. in building web interfaces to automated backups, so that a CGI-driven
interface could auto-refresh itself every few seconds by querying the running rsync
for its status.
If I had any C++ skills, I'd be trying to do the above myself.
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The code is for real and will not kill your machine. I made it available
as I could not find a Windows executable version when I had a need to
backup my families PCs. I know Rsync comes as part of Cygwin, but I
needed an external way to run the Rsync code from an automatic script,
in the
to (and shouldn't) attempt to set up rsync
shares if you're using SSH; that's only for operating in daemon mode. You
want something more along the lines of the following:
rsync -rvz --rsh=/usr/local/bin/ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/to/resource
/path/to/resource
Hope that helps.
Jim Salter
JRS
In the middle of the rsync transfer, i get the error on the client saying
that the server unexpectedly close the connection. Upon checking the
logs on the rsync server, i found this entry:
Oct 10 14:39:38 linux01 rsyncd[9266]: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to
write 4096 bytes: phase
Has any progress ever been made towards fixing the problem causing rsync processes to
hang in the cygwin environment? I've tried just using Unison in the windows
environment, since it has a native port, but, um. Unison is probably great for what
it IS intended for, but it absolutely sucks
as Administrator, you will have no joy in your
automated SSH task.
Hope that helped.
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market to grow in. Either way, big win for the rest
of us.
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between Windows and Unix machines, I would recommend that
you do so with Unison.
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- Original Message -
From: IsoH [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 11:42 AM
Subject: rsync-2.5.6 performance sucks between winXP
as your
transport, and refer to the ssh and sshd manpages for info on getting them
to use port 80 instead of port 22.
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. If they're running rsync on
an incredibly old machine and want to conserve the cycles ssh would use for
encryption or don't have ssh available, they can always just run an rsync
daemon.
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.
Alternately, if somebody could update the .diff so that it worked against
2.5.7 (or 2.5.8 / 2.6.0, when it comes out) source, that would be enough to
shut me up for the time being. =)
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Before
implicitly, and then eventually it stops with the following:
io.o: In function `read_unbuffered':
/home/jimbo/rsync/rsync-2.5.7/io.c:324: undefined reference to `Realloc'
*** Error code 1
Stop in /usr/home/jimbo/rsync/rsync-2.5.7.
Hope that helps.
Jim Salter
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systems that produce this error when
attempting to compile rsync 2.5.7 patched with craigb-perf.
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On the first attempt we received this error at 2.3Gb and on the second at
2.4Gb.
rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(575)
Have you CHKDSK'ed the laptop? Sounds like a filesystem corruption problem.
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with (and that's the way I like it),
and by doing it that way there's really nothing that compromising the
backup account can do other than give someone the ability to run my
daily backups for me. Not too scary, that.
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about stray uid 0 accounts
floating around or direct root logins enabled (forced-command or no)
than about using sudo to call a script.
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/rsyncd.conf --daemon. It's probably
looking for it someplace where you didn't put it, and when it can't find
an rsyncd.conf, it silently exits.
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transport -
rsync's cygwin problem is *not* SSH-related.
Good luck.
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JW: in this instance, since he used the -a switch, shouldn't have rsync
sync'ed the file again anyway, since the file modification date would
(should?) have been updated when he renamed the file?
Alain: *does* Panther touch the file (and update the file modification
datestamp) when you rename
Fie on you, sir (although I mean that in the nicest possible way) - I'd
like to see 2.6.0 get its head out the door. =)
Jim Salter
Cristian Gafton wrote:
It is a nasty trap, and if you agree that it should get fixed, I think it
is better done as part of the 2.6.0 rollout than at some minor
I'm not sure how that could be considered a security issue on rsync's
part - if rsync wasn't running as root, how would it be able to set uid
and gid arbitrarily?
acct svcs wrote:
After your suggestion I did discover a solution, though. I had to
explicitly assign uid and gid to root in
YES YES YES YES YES me likey me likey me ruv you rong time.
I've been wanting something like this forever. Who really gives a rat's
ass about the %age of the current file, most of the time; it's ALL about
the percentage of the total job done. I'd love to see this make a
point-release so we
Wouldn't this (accomplishing security restrictions without need to enter
a password, or to enter a password more than once) be a lot more easily
accomplished by simply using SSH transport and public/private keys
instead of using the daemon mode at all?
Jim Salter
Larry Brasfield wrote:
Hi
IANALG (I Am Not A Linux Guy - FreeBSD is my *nix of choice), but could
this possibly be related to the mem:remap Linux kernel bug that was
recently discovered?
Jim Salter
Thanks Wayne,
This just may explain the behavior. I noticed that when I deleted the
files that were transferred
What kernel are you using, and if it's not at least 2.4.x, have you
considered simply trying a newer kernel?
Jim Salter jim at jrssystems.net writes:
IANALG (I Am Not A Linux Guy - FreeBSD is my *nix of choice), but could
this possibly be related to the mem:remap Linux kernel bug
for the
presence of one of your own servers in the arguments passed by the user
before appending its --password-file argument to the list.
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by a router. This is not an issue which
tends to be visible to the end-user with protocols like HTTP or FTP, but
can very definitely be an issue with SSH or rsync. Test: ssh across the
two servers. Do nothing for half an hour. Is the pipe still open?)
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Bryan Sauser wrote:
I checked
. Something like this:
net use z: \\mypc1\myshare1
rsync -e ssh -av /cygdrive/z/dir1/* /cygdrive/z/dir2/
Hope that helps...
Jim Salter
Please help : Strange 'file has vanished' behaviour with rsync on windows.
I need to run rsync on windows and sync shares thru UNC names.
When I try :
rsync -e ssh -av
What are mypc1 and mypc2? Can you successfully ssh into them? Can
you successfully ssh into them as user1 and user2? When you do ssh into
them as user1 and/or user2, can you cd into /myshare1/dir1 and
/myshare2/dir2 ?
You need to be very specific about what you're actually doing and what
Max - what is the OS of the machine you're using to access the Win2K SMB
share from? I ask because the reference implementation of Samba - ie,
the ftp-alike smbclient - works just dandy under every OS I've looked
at, but the kernel implementation of smbfs under FreeBSD (and possibly
other
Is there anything noticeably different, network-wise, about this RH box
from the others? Different network card, different subnet, etc? Can
your other *nix machines sync from this particular Win2K smb filesystem
fine? Can the problem child *nix box sync to your other *nix boxen fine?
I'm
::coughs::
Another way of phrasing that would be to say If your OS prevents open
files from being accessed normally, you need to deal with that at the OS
level.
And in case you were wondering, yes, Windows is a brain-damaged OS in
that regard (and many others, but I digress). Under Windows,
Jason, this is absolutely great info on the Win32 file locking system
and sounds like a very very interesting patch indeed.
A quick question, though - how hard would it be to use backup semantics
as a default for an additional mount for the entire filesystem, rather
than trying to tack it into
Hmmm. It's odd to think that Cygwin always uses backup semantics,
because it DEFINITELY fails to process quite a lot of files that the
high-dollar win32-native backup utilities can process.
My experience has been that cygwin can open (for reading) any file that
you can use the GUI to
There are many different ways to accomplish this. Are you wanting to
use rsync in daemon mode, or rsync over an ssh transport?
I hate to deliver the stock answer, but it sounds like you need to RTFM
a bit and then try us back if you still can't get it to work.
-J
Hi,
Have one workstation
March 2004 19:51, Jim Salter wrote:
There are many different ways to accomplish this. Are you wanting to
use rsync in daemon mode, or rsync over an ssh transport?
I hate to deliver the stock answer, but it sounds like you need to RTFM
a bit and then try us back if you still can't get it to work.
-J
It's a windows timestamp inaccuracy issue - check the manpages for info
on timestamp windows as a workaround.
-J
Each time I run rsync it copies the same files even though I haven't
made any changes. I doesn't copy all the files each time, just the same
ones each time I run the command. I run
Tim Conway wrote:
for source in source1 source2 source3
do
rsync -options $source destination:$source
done
wait
adapt as needed.
That will WORK, of course, but it does require that you do a file list
build and compare for each of the above, instead of doing a
Threw a mental is extremely unhelpful. What was it writing to the
logfile?
Jason Ferguson wrote:
I have the following as a line in a script kicked off from cron:
sudo rsync -e ssh -avz /Times_QPS/ 192.168.22.72:/Times_QPS/ --eahfs
It logs the output to a log file, however rsync caused the
my bounces missed (like deleting files).
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But why would you want to use rsync if you've already built your file
list? Seems kinda pointless... I mean if it got touched, you definitely
want to copy it, so, yeah. =)
Jim Salter
Good idea
find / -ctime -1h |rsync -a --files-from=- / destination
No perl needed. You might want mtime
/path/to/stuff on the local machine
Hope that helps.
Jim Salter
Just installed cwrsync 1.2.1 and I am getting this:
C:\cwrsyncrsync -n -v -r /cygdrive/c/robj/pickmeup
speedball3:/cygdrive/d/robj/pickmeup
Failed to exec ssh : No such file or directory
rsync error: error in IPC code (code 14
whether or not it started out with one.
Jim Salter
But isn't building this exact file list what an ordinary call to rsync
is supposed to do (when not forcing checksum calculation)? So why is
rsync so much slower than find?
/Greger
Tim Conway wrote:
Good idea
find / -ctime -1h |rsync -a --files
You can use the --rsh=/path/to/command/here argument in conjunction
with a simple shell script wrapper that calls rsync using sudo.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Paul Galbraith wrote:
Is it possible to configure rsync in server mode, to gain access to root
protected files, without the user having
be planning on moving lots of users' files, which a
non-root account might not be able to access in the directories on the
remote end.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Brian Chase wrote:
I'm not the command line guru, but it is my understanding that if you've
got rsyncd running at boot time, any user can
I'd still prefer to see something like a --total-progress option that
displayed the percentage of the total synchronization that had been
completed, rather than the percentage of progress of the current file.
In the occasions where I'm hovering impatiently over an rsync waiting
for it to
2.6.0 from the ports tree.
Thanks ...
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So, just to clarify - this is a bug that needs fixing only on the server
side, not the client side, correct? (Important to me because I'd just
as druther not have to compile the cygwin side of the house if I don't
have to.)
On Wed, Apr 07, 2004 at 06:13:31PM -0400, Jim Salter wrote
That *was* seriously impressive. Thanks Wayne. =)
Steve W. Ingram wrote:
50 minutes for investigation *and* a patch!?
Holy cow!
Yeah, Mr Gates, that's the advantage of companies
like yours; the support of your software. I mean, you
just don't know where to get support on free software
and
.) On the other hand, if you're using rsync without the SSH
transport, in daemon mode, your OS may not know natively what rsync
means, in which case you'd have to specify the actual port number (873)
directly.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Hy,
I would like to know, how to wrapp rsync. I added line
to [EMAIL PROTECTED] without a
password, rsync won't be able to access it (using SSH transport) either
- so you'll need to either publish keys and get SSH working properly, or
set up an rsync daemon and use its transport instead.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
On Wednesday, 14 April 2004 at 10:13, Jim
before proceeding to the actual rsync'ing.
In actual point of fact, my preening is triggered by drive capacity and
usage levels, not age of archives, and once triggered it eliminates
archives from older to newer until usage is back down to a desired
percentage - but you get the idea.
Jim Salter
JRS
Wouldn't it be easier just to create a softlink on the cygwin machine so
that you could access C: from /c ?
Or for that matter, if these are easily-confused Windows users, just
begin the Samba (or other SMB) share south of the cygwin/ on the rsync
machine?
Here's another feature I'd like to
Try cwrsync at http://www.itefix.no/cwrsync/ and see if you have better
luck. Older cygwin DLLs had some network issues that rsync exposed, but
in my experience installing cwrsync will fix the problem entirely.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
I have a problem with rsync 2.6 protocol 27 (both client
if you get the same error.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Hello,
I'm desperately trying to have a RSync server work on a Windows 2003
Standard Server.
All the documentation available I have found applies to Windows NT/2000/XP
I don't know whether 2003 works differently from the previous Windows.
I have
back with us - that means all the
crontabs, everything in init.d / rc.d or whatever your OS uses,
/etc/periodic if applicable, the AT queue, inetd, the whole nine. I
sincerely doubt that rsync itself is randomly firing off instances of
itself without being asked to.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
OK
You're using the -a flag, which among other things means rsync will try
to preserve ownership. If your PDA is running linux, most likely the
UID it's using for ownership of the files you're transferring matches
the UID of your Lefty account on your PC.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
I'm using rsync
give which rsync ; i get the following output
/usr/local/bin/rsync.
Jim Salter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Clearly, if you can't execute the which command remotely, rsh is _not_
working perfectly fine. If you can't use it for remote command
execution, it isn't going to serve as an rsync
This is a test message - my apologies for it, but everything I send is
getting bounced.
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, and attempts to create directories like
[EMAIL PROTECTED]::backup/backup on the server doing the rsyncing's own
filesystem.
If anybody's ever tried doing this kind of thing, your experience would
be very helpful.
Thanks!
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Has anybody else noticed cygwin.com and sources.redhat.com being down?
The machine that answers to those addresses (and sourceware.org) is
refusing HTTP connections, and has been for at least 48 hours now.
Anybody here know anything about it? I haven't been able to find out
diddly-squat about
for letting me know he was getting through okay,
so I knew what direction to look.
-J
Jim Salter wrote:
Has anybody else noticed cygwin.com and sources.redhat.com being down?
The machine that answers to those addresses (and sourceware.org) is
refusing HTTP connections, and has been for at least 48 hours
Which version of rsync, AND which version of Cygwin, that you run is
VERY crucial. Rsync itself wasn't actually the source of the hang
bugs under Cygwin, the cygwin1.dll file was, from my understanding.
Either way, if you upgrade both Cygwin and Rsync to the latest versions,
your problem
Slight clarification:
When I said latest version of rsync, I did NOT mean the latest binary
packaged with cygwin, I meant the latest source version, which you can
compile yourself under cygwin (if you've installed gcc, ming, and make)
or you can use the pre-compiled binaries now available at
Does anybody have any idea why people needing help with Electronic Arts
games keep finding the rsync list? I've seen five or six of these since
I've been on the list, and it's *always* somebody with an EA game in
particular...
Things that make you go h.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
hello
are to begin with. But I can't help wondering how the heck
those wires got crossed, and where. =)
fishing for email addresses? Blasting questions to any and all lists in
hope someone will help?
TMC
On Sat, May 01, 2004 at 04:48:01PM -0400, Jim Salter wrote:
Does anybody have any idea why people
Heh... think people are googling, finding that, and replying through
the website at somewhere that has a web form for posting to the list?
Makes... sense... I guess.
Sigh. I don't know how some people *survive*...
Does anybody have any idea why people needing help with Electronic Arts
I compiled and installed rsync 2.6.2 from source (the site's download
page) today, under Cygwin 1.5.9-1 / Windows 2000 Professional SP4.
Initial testing shows that it operates properly and smoothly, and that
Wayne's bugfix for the daemon mode / --backup problem I reported earlier
did the
daemon mode in my Perl
wrapper. The system being used is running FreeBSD 5.1, and I have the
problem when running either rsync 2.6.0 from FreeBSD's ports tree or
2.6.2 downloaded straight from the rsync site and compiled.
Any ideas? (Help me, help me obi-Wayne...)
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
rsync tasks - but
that's a pretty ugly hack. I'm hoping somebody's got a simpler answer
for what's getting b0rk3d...
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BINGO. Unintended interpolation of the @localhost as an array instead
of as a literal string. Thanks Brian!
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Brian Cross wrote:
Jim,
No idea's off hand, but set the -w debug option at the top of the script
and see if it gives you more information regarding the error
more memory-friendly when the
size of the job exceeds the resources available, by causing it to do the
exact same thing as the wrapper described above does, but I'm not going
to kvetch.)
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Hi, folks.
We've gone where no man has gone before. On HP-UX, rsync bombs at about
in the fileset and say hey, why am I
missing several thousand?
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You need to create an rsyncd.conf file that specifies uid root, and call
rsync with that conf file when you start the daemon. Otherwise the
daemon spawns processes as nobody by default, and nobody can't write
files as other users. Check man rsyncd.conf for details.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
I
We *CANNOT* help you without seeing the actual command line you're using
to try to run rsync with.
Hello everybody,
We have to servers which we syncronize with rsync. After updating the second
server to RedHat Enterprise Linux, rsync pops up with the message:
connection reset by peer,
is
completely done, you can just use backticks:
$rsync_output = `/usr/bin/rsync -avz /foo bar::baz`;
### parse $rsync_output here - you may want to use split to turn the
string into a list, however
print $rsync_output;
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
When RSYNC runs in -v mode, I get the following output
]
path = /etc
comment = system config files
or if you prefer to give any random rsync user access to everything on
the entire server (NOT recommended, particularly if you do not set
read-only or auth users / secrets):
[root]
path = /
comment = hope you know what you're doing
Hope that helps.
Jim
Damn, I hate to hear that. Here's to JW's memory, he is missed.
Thanks for letting us know, Wayne.
-J
I was saddened to learn today that JW Schultz was found dead back on
March 27th of this year. JW was a big help in the recent development of
rsync and I sorely missed his presence during the
the file, and moves on to the next one in queue.
HTH.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
I didn't see this answered in the FAQ, and it's important to one of my
application owners.
How does RSYNC handle open or write in process files?
Thank you!
J
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, it would be very helpful indeed.
... I would also humbly suggest STANDARDIZING rsync error outputs in a
future version, so that perhaps they all begain with rsync error: or
some other easily identifiable string. Right now they're, well, all
over the place.
Thanks all!
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
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