On Wed, Jan 24, 2001 at 08:30:50AM -0800, Adam Wilson wrote:
>
> Hello, I am seeing the following problems when trying
> to perform rsync between a Sun running Solaris 8 and a
> Redhat Linux box. rsh is already set up to allow
> remote logins, file copies, etc.
>
>
> [cable@galadriel]{1348}% rsync --version
> rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24
>
> Written by Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras
>
> [cable@galadriel]{1349}%
>
>
> Now, if I put my source directory with a trailing "/"
> on it, and do archive mode, I get this error.
>
>
> [cable@galadriel]{1349}% rsync -alv --exclude=BACKUP
> /home/cable/src/ITG/Test_4.1.5/ sauron:/home/cable/src
> building file list ... readlink : No such file or
> directory
> readlink : No such file or directory
> readlink : No such file or directory
> readlink : No such file or directory
> readlink : No such file or directory
> readlink : No such file or directory
> readlink : No such file or directory
> done
> wrote 68 bytes read 16 bytes 168.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
> [cable@galadriel]{1350}%
>
>
> Then, if I leave the same options, but remove the
> trailing "/", I get this scrolling error that is
> infinite.
>
>
> [cable@galadriel]{1351}% rsync -alv --exclude=BACKUP
> /home/cable/src/ITG/Test_4.1.5 sauron:/home/cable/src>
> building file list ... opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many
> open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
> opendir(Test_4.1.5): Too many open files
It seems that there must be something strange with the Test_4.1.5
directory. It seems almost as if it is recursively hardlinked to itself.
Or maybe there's a Test_4.1.5 on the destination side that is symlinked
recursively.
> Finally, if I remove archiving mode and try it both
> with and without the trailing "/", it still doesn't
> work.
>
>
> [cable@galadriel]{1352}% rsync -lv --exclude=BACKUP
> /home/cable/src/ITG/Test_4.1.5/ sauron:/ho>
> skipping directory /home/cable/src/ITG/Test_4.1.5/.
> wrote 17 bytes read 16 bytes 22.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
> [cable@galadriel]{1353}%
> [cable@galadriel]{1353}% rsync -lv --exclude=BACKUP
> /home/cable/src/ITG/Test_4.1.5 sauron:/hom>
> skipping directory /home/cable/src/ITG/Test_4.1.5
> wrote 17 bytes read 16 bytes 66.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0 speedup is 0.00
> [cable@galadriel]{1354}%
Right, I wouldn't expect it to do anything without -a.
- Dave Dykstra
