Craig Barratt via BackupPC-users wrote at about 11:21:29 -0700 on Sunday, May 5, 2019: > > > > - Is this just a concatenation of different command-line options sent to > > rsync? > > > Yes - rsync passes along short versions of the command-line arguments the > are relevant to the remote sender. Many of them are based on the original > command-line arguments. Excludes/Includes are sent over the socket rather > than via the command-line. > > You can see the code that builds this option string in > rsync-3.1.3/options.c:server_options(). > > If so, what is the meaning of the period? > > > It's not documented in the rsync man page, but by looking at the function > above it appears to be connected to the immediately-prior flag "e". This > isn't the usual "-e" option to rsync. Rather, it's an internal-only option > the server processes to set any potential rsync subprotocol version. "e." > means the default. However, I haven't looked at the code enough to figure > out where these command-line options are decoded. > > Craig > > On Thu, May 2, 2019 at 9:28 PM <backu...@kosowsky.org> wrote: > > > When I look at the rsync process running on the client, I get: > > /usr/bin/ssh -l root host /usr/bin/sudo /usr/bin/rsync --server > > --sender -slHogDtpAXrcxe.iLsf --iconv=UTF-8 > > > > - What is the meaning of the (option?) string: -slHogDtpAXrcxe.iLsf > > - Is this just a concatenation of different command-line options sent > > to rsync? > > - If so, what is the meaning of the period? > > - Also, are these options fixed or do they vary with the setting of > > rsync args in config.pl?
Thanks. It was the period that had me confused :) _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/