Hi all,
Just a tip for anyone else...
rsync 2.6.7 has changed the meaning of the --devices option to only mean
device nodes[1], not FIFOs/sockets (a new option --specials instructs
rsync to copy them). This caused filelistReceive failures for us on a
client machine running Debian testing, which has 2.6.7. For others it
seems to have caused segfaults when their backup hits a FIFO/socket[2].
The -D option to rsync does what we want though, it means --devices on
older rsyncs and --devices --specials on 2.6.7+. I've changed our
$Conf{RsyncArgs} to use -D rather than --devices and things have worked
since, and suggest we do the same to the shipped version of the config
file.
Vince
[1] http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.7-NEWS
[2] http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=358319
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