Your attempt to exclude the root directory, if successful,
would have prevented the whole transfer on the parent
directory pathwalking principle. So that is not the way to
go.
Yes - I assumed that this was probably some side-effect of the current implementation - and it's not really so much of a problem, as long as it is documented behaviour, because it doesn't seem to me to be intuitive behaviour to joe bloggs... I'd just re-read the include/exclude portion of the manual page before I started this operation yesterday, to make sure I was clear on it :-/.
Using a source of "/." should give the same behavior as you are experiencing and "/./" the behavior you want. Wayne may have some comments on this.
My recommendation is to avoid the issue entirely. If you are going to sync from root, don't make a directory with special permissions requirements the destination. In other words, use a subdirectory of /tmp, not /tmp. Changing the
Yes, in accordance with the law of sod, this is exactly what I did on all the less critical, and non-production machines ;o).
permissions of /tmp could have dire consequences rangingI can vouch for this.
from breaking applications to adversly affecting security.
I've included a documentation patch, after having read Wayne's posting, but you guys might want to tweak it a bit, or alter it's location, but hopefully it'll save someone like me a red face ;o).
Cheers,
Tim.
--- rsync-2.5.6/rsync.1 2003-10-07 11:00:17.000000000 +0100 +++ rsync-2.5.6/rsync.1.old 2003-10-07 10:39:18.000000000 +0100 @@ -960,16 +960,6 @@ each\&. To add multiple patterns use the --include-from and --exclude-from options or multiple --include and --exclude options\&. .PP -Also note that it is currently impossible to exclude the source path -from the list of files - as doing so with the current underlying -implementation would mean that no files would be transfered at all\&. -A subtle implication of this, is that if permission synchronisation is -enabled, and you have specified that src/ be synchronised with dst/, -then the permissions of dst/ will get updated with the permissions of -src/, even if you have explicity attempted to exclude the destination -path\&. Beware especially when transfering into system directories -such as /tmp/ - use a subdirectory instead\&. -.PP The patterns can take several forms\&. The rules are: .PP .IP o
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