patches to enable rsync 3.0.6 compile on AIX 3.2

sync-3.0.6/lib/sysacls.c rsync-3.0.6-new/lib/sysacls.c 1817a1818 > #if defined(ENOTSUP) 1818a1820,1822 > #else > errno = EINVAL; > #endif As has been noted elsewhere, running ./configure with "ksh" works better than with the default /bin/sh. -- | Ian! D. All

Re: purge-empty-dirs and max-file-size confusion

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 02:19:41PM -0400, Ian! D. Allen wrote: > On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 07:51:35AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: > > This is because --min-size is a transfer rule, not an exclude rule. > > There is no mention of the concept of "transfer rule" in the rs

how to put -ii output in log file and not on screen?

MAT [...] Setting this option to the null string (="") will have the side-effect of disabling the all the effects and side-effects of --itemize-changes. My current work-around is to abandon trying to use --log-file and to parse the redirected output of "-ii" inst

Re: purge-empty-dirs and max-file-size confusion

lter/exclude rule, it does not affect the file-list, so --prune-empty-dirs will not work with this option. Thanks for keeping rsync alive and kicking! -- | Ian! D. Allen - idal...@idallen.ca - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://co

Re: purge-empty-dirs and max-file-size confusion

xclude and it works fine:' rm -r $tmp2 rsync -ai --exclude smallfile --prune-empty-dirs $tmp1 $tmp2 find $tmp2 -empty # shows no output - this is correct and expected echo "*** Why doesn't --prune-empty-dirs work with --min-size and --max-size?" rm -r $tmp1 $tmp2 -- | Ian! D

Re: purge-empty-dirs and max-file-size confusion

current misbehaviour. Has nobody ever wondered about this before? I suppose I shall have to Read The Source to find out what is wrong. Please someone enlighten me about what I'm missing, before I start digging around in there... -- | Ian! D. Allen - idal...@idallen.ca - Ottaw

purge-empty-dirs and max-file-size confusion

test/dir4/BIGFILE cd+ test/dir5/ >f+ test/dir5/BIGFILE cd+ test/dir6/ >f+ test/dir6/BIGFILE Wrong. I don't want all those dir1, dir2, dir3 empty directories. I don't want *any* empty directories, at any level. What am I miss

moving local files, remote mirroring, and --link-dest awkwardness

use the -H feature to update hard links. That also works; but, then I have a mix of linked and not-linked files in dir/tmp that I have to sort out.) -- | Ian! D. Allen - [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Ottawa, Ontario, Canada | Home Page: http://idallen.com/ Contact Improv: http://contactimprov.ca/ | Col

which files were newer and not transferred?

!) I'd love to see a "show me which files did not get transferred because they were newer" flag that means I can avoid parsing the huge -vv output. If the maintainers agree, let me know and maybe I'll dig in to the code to try to figure out a patch to make this possible (un

unexpected --exclude pattern behaviours with glob wildcards

on't understand the above at all. Adding a wildcard character to a working exclude shouldn't cause it to fail. Adding '**' to the front of the failing pattern causes it to start working again. Why? This is really not how I expect it to work. Keep up the good work - th

Re: rsync as a backup solution

e with new data. The result - two files that have the same size, date, and time but different data. Unless you call rsync with the --ignore-times option next time, this error will go undetected by subsequent rsync runs. -- -IAN! Ian! D. Allen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] H

no error messages on I/O errors

-errors-even-further option... -- -IAN! Ian! D. Allen Ottawa, Ontario, Canada [EMAIL PROTECTED] Home Page on the Ottawa FreeNet: http://www.ncf.ca/~aa610/ College professor at: http://www.algonquincollege.com/~alleni/ Board Member, TeleCommunities CANADA http://www.tc.ca/