Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-07 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:33:43AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 22:33:06 -0800, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > I'd suggest also changing the last line of the function: > > > > -return file_compare(&f1, &f2); > > +return file_compare(f1p, f2p)

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-07 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Jan 07, 2004 at 01:04:34AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Tue, 6 Jan 2004 15:11:54 -0800, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:04:19AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > >> On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-06 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 07:36:03PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > One complicating factor of getting rid of dev+inode in the flist_struct > is that some of the old-protocol code uses these values to fix a bug in > directory deletion order in protocols prior to 19. I'd suggest that we > just dump su

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-06 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:04:19AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Mon, 5 Jan 2004, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:46:52PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > [ snip ] > >> This seems like a good way to go to me. > > > >

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-06 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:11:04PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 04:18:30PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > It puts us back into the business of doing a link lookup for every > > regular file. > > Ah yes, I missed that. Adding a flag would be suf

Re: Copying hard-linked tree structure

2004-01-06 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 03:34:49AM -0600, Max Kipness wrote: > Hope this isnt' too off topic... > > I have a tree structure on one server similar to the following: > > /Current > /01-04-2003 > /01-03-2003 > > etc... > > /Current holds the most recent rsynced data, and the date directories >

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-06 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:44:37AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [snip] > Your changes are almost identical to mine, so I will address only the > m

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-05 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 02:46:52PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:12:16PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > - init_hard_links() sets nlinks in file_struct. > > I assume you mean by counting adjacent runs of identical inodes after > the sort is done (while

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-05 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 05:34:04AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004 16:23:17 -0800, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:30:03AM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > > > I'm noodling on the idea of purging the hlink_list of

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-05 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 05, 2004 at 01:44:37AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Sun, 4 Jan 2004, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:35:03AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > > >> I've modified hlink.c to use a list of file struct pointe

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-04 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 05:30:03AM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:35:03AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > > I've modified hlink.c to use a list of file struct pointers instead of > > copies of the actual file structs themselves, so that will save memory.

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-04 Thread jw schultz
Minor corrections... On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:35:03AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > Lester, > > You articulated your situation clear enough for me. Thanks. > > I'll address your issue about when rsync is running locally for /vol/N > to /vol/N_mirror syncing, it exhausts all of the RAM and sw

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2004-01-04 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Jan 04, 2004 at 06:35:03AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > Lester, > > You articulated your situation clear enough for me. Thanks. > > I'll address your issue about when rsync is running locally for /vol/N > to /vol/N_mirror syncing, it exhausts all of the RAM and swap. > > If you haven'

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2004-01-03 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Jan 03, 2004 at 12:16:55PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:51:07PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > The question is, should link-dest make the decision based on the > > source uid/gid or based on the uid/gid the file winds up with. > > I think it

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 02:02:16PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:34:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I assumed numeric id's are not used unless explictly asked for. > > As I expected, the code is not dealing with the IDs properly when > running as a non-root user

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 08:56:44PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > I assume that older versions of rsync would still exhibit the problem > > > (since we have a patch relating to this in the upcoming 2.6.0). > > &g

Re: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(298)

2003-12-30 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:23:30PM -0800, Doug Floer wrote: > I'm running into a problem rsynchronizing over an rsh connection on the same > subnet. I get variations of the "unexpected tag" error, consistently failing > within io.c at line 298: > > unexpected tag 88 > rsync error: error in rsync

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:10:08PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 07:34:48PM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > The numeric id's are different, but I assumed numeric id's are not used > > unless explictly asked for. > > Internally we use ID numbers, but the code tries to tr

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-29 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 12:27:21AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Hi -- > > I'm experiencing problems when using rsync between two different machines. > Details follows: > > Both machines are running 2.4.23, rsync versions on both are identically > configured versions of 2.5.7: > > rsync

Re: Question about file ownership on destination

2003-12-29 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 03:26:53PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 05:23:21PM -0500, acct svcs wrote: > > AFAIK, the daemon is running as root. > > Quoting from the rsyncd.conf file you cited: > > uid = server1 > gid = server1 > > Comment-out these lines. He

Re: The dangers of static buffers in rsync code

2003-12-29 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 29, 2003 at 04:55:19PM -0500, Cristian Gafton wrote: > > I have been trying for quite a while now to understand why is the > flist.c:f_name() function implemented using static buffers. Anyone care to > comment? > > The immediate problem is that any call to f_name overrides the previ

Re: Status of upcoming 2.6.0 release

2003-12-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 02:06:59PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:48:40PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > Sounds good to me. Should this be sent to rsync-announce? > > I had been assuming that just the announcement of the final 2.6.0 > release would go

Re: Status of upcoming 2.6.0 release

2003-12-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 01:32:53PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > The changes made to 2.6.0pre1 have been pretty minor so far, so I had > been debating whether we needed a pre2 release or not. I finally > decided to go ahead and release what little there is, just to give > folks a final opportunity

Re: Bug report: rsync does not always discriminate upper and lower case

2003-12-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 10:45:52AM +0100, alain content wrote: > Right, > Renaming does not touch the file - it only changes the directory > modification date. > > And you are absolutely right. Panther preserves case but is insensitive to > case in file names : > ls > >... > >-rw-r--r-- 1 ac ac

Re: bug on --partial

2003-12-28 Thread jw schultz
On Sun, Dec 28, 2003 at 09:50:37AM +0100, Manuel Mollar wrote: > Hi, > Sorry if this is well known. > Suposse I am transferring a large (by now) file, say 1Gbyte with --partial: > rsync -e ssh -a --partial 1gbfile server: > If process is interrumpted, temporary file is renamed to good filename >

Re: Bug report: rsync does not always discriminate upper and lower case

2003-12-27 Thread jw schultz
modification > datestamp) when you rename it? > > -J > > jw schultz wrote: > >On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:28:06PM +0100, alain content wrote: > > > >>Hi, > >>I found this surprising behavior with rsync (version 2.5.7 protocol > >>version 26

Re: Bug report: rsync does not always discriminate upper and lower case

2003-12-27 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Dec 27, 2003 at 12:28:06PM +0100, alain content wrote: > Hi, > I found this surprising behavior with rsync (version 2.5.7 protocol > version 26) on Mac OS X (Panther, 10.3.2) : > > Suppose you have a folder "Source" containing a file named "abc", and its > backup as folder "Clone", cre

Re: License on rsync ??

2003-12-26 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Dec 26, 2003 at 03:48:24PM -0500, tabris wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > Noted in the readme that rsync is licensed under GPL, and have some > questions about this. > > Reading through a couple different places on the internet, of people > wondering why ther

Re: Transfering a linux root directory with rsync, too many files transfered!

2003-12-23 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 01:35:09AM -0800, Hannes Kocznar wrote: > Hi, > > I'm transfering a whole linux root dir (+ subdirs) to a backup location. > I tried -avr and -avrc switches. > My problem is that rsync somewhat seems to transfer nearly everything (2960 > files!) while only maybe 10 or 15 we

Re: rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(1045)

2003-12-22 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 23, 2003 at 04:00:24AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi! > > How can I find out what files wheren't transferred If I have error: > >rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at > main.c(1045) > > running rsync? > > I've tried "rsync -v[v][v]" but had no suc

Re: getting rid of "permission denied" partial transfer errors

2003-12-22 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 10:14:05PM +0100, Sayan wrote: > Ron DuFresne wrote: > >sure avoid all perm/user issues by making the whole server suid. seen > >kids do that when they tired of having to su - root on their linux systems. > > > this command is only one line extracted from a script. Syncing

Re: getting rid of "permission denied" partial transfer errors

2003-12-22 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 09:11:26PM +0100, Sayan wrote: > Hi, > > I am currently setting up a backup script for the /home directory of a > server. I send all the files on a remote machine through LAN connection > using rsync to optimize bandwidth usage. > > The script is run as root on the serve

Re: Permissions Problems

2003-12-22 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 22, 2003 at 11:45:50AM -0800, John Davis wrote: > Here's my command copied from a shell script:\ > > rsync --verbose --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh > --recursive --times --perms --links \ > /home/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/remotebackups/ > > Here's some (a small part) of

Re: why not link devices with --link-dest option?

2003-12-20 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Dec 20, 2003 at 03:37:40AM -0800, Russell Senior wrote: > > I notice that devices are not hardlinked when using the --link-dest > option, for instance: > > rsync -aH --link-dest=../bar/ foo/ baz/ > > When foo/zero is a device, baz/zero is not a hardlink to bar/zero. How > come? Becau

Re: preview release: 2.6.0pre1

2003-12-19 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 11:14:56PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Fri 19 Dec 2003, Wayne Davison wrote: > > > Please test this and let me know if we have any remaining issues to work > > through before the final release. Thanks, > > One tiny little nit, when compiling on alpha, I get the follo

Re: rsync "hang"

2003-12-19 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 03:06:20PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > J.W. > > The memory error was a correctable logged at 15:30 PM, with the > apparent time on the rsync issue being 23:00. > > It would be nice to see everything tie together but I don't see > it this time (I've have pushed the same c

Re: rsync "hang"

2003-12-19 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Dec 19, 2003 at 01:14:21PM -0500, Brian Cuttler wrote: > > Hello rsync list, > > I am running a Solaris 8 system and have rsync 1.6.2 protocal 14 installed. > We have updated (wed 17-dec) to the latest Solaris 8 recommended patch set. > > When performing an rsync of two local UFS partiti

Re: partial transfer

2003-12-18 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 10:23:37AM -0500, Michael J. Lynn wrote: > I am attempting to use rsync to backup a Win98 laptop to a FreeBSD 4.8 > backup server. I have experienced the same problem at roughly the same > point in the process on two occations. The laptop contains ~2.7Gb of data. > On the

Re: FreeBSD mknod errors

2003-12-17 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:30:27PM -0600, Elvar wrote: > Hi all, I ran across a few threads on google regarding FreeBSD's rsync mknod > problem but I didn't find any good fix. I was wondering if anyone knows more > about this and a good fix. Here's an example of the output. There has been a patch

Re: long startup times for large file systems

2003-12-17 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 09:34:45AM +1100, Tomasz Ciolek wrote: > Scotty > > As far as I know rsync build a list of files and attributes + checksums > in memory. This can cause a large memory footprint while running the > process, so 72MB of data for 4.2 million files is only about right, > dependi

Re: long startup times for large file systems

2003-12-17 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 05:12:31PM -0500, Steve Howie wrote: > Howdy, > > Rsync has been churning away for 45 mins, presumably bulding an in-core > list of files to be copied to the destination. This is a very very large > filesystem we are copying locally - approximately 4.2million files > (We

Re: sharing bookmarks with rsync

2003-12-17 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 08:31:13AM -0800, james houston wrote: > I would like to have my computer at home and my > computer at work to share the same bookmarks. My idea > was to have each of the computers sync with a server's > bookmark file. If the client has a newer file than the > server it woul

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2003-12-17 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 03:43:40AM -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > jw schultz writes: > > > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:18:15PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > > > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > Hard-link handling &g

Re: tty screwed up on ctrl-c

2003-12-17 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 10:53:22AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 16 Dec 2003, jw schultz wrote: > > > > I remember this as well and the root of the problem was not > > that rsync didn't wait long enough but that ssh was not > > resetting the tty for

Re: Rsyncing Windows directory to a Linux box: problem with spacesin directory names

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 01:27:42PM +0900, Charles Nadeau wrote: > Max Kipness wrote: > > >> Another option is to upgrade to the CVS version (available in > >> the near future as version 2.6.0) and use the --files-from > >> option to specify your files (since it already parses the > >> names one pe

Re: Rsyncing Windows directory to a Linux box: problem with spaces in directory names

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 17, 2003 at 09:05:50AM +0900, Charles Nadeau wrote: > Max Kipness wrote: > > >> > I am trying to rsync folders/files hosted on a Windows machine to a > >> > Linux machine. Many of the directory names have spaces in them. > >> > How can I list them in a file so that the --include-from o

Re: Rsync 2.5.7 hangs after completion

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 09:25:51PM -0400, Wesley Joyce wrote: > I am having a problem with rsync hanging after completion. The command I > am using is: rsync -vaz --delete /banproc/ backenp650:/banproc (thanks jw > for the syntax correction) > > There were 56 deletions on the destination and ~

Re: Prepping for a new release (2.5.8? 2.6.0?)

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 12:02:26PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:42:58AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:42:29PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > > Below is a revised file with a TOC at the top. > > > > Cool, looks lik

Re: tty screwed up on ctrl-c

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:33:29PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 10:45:12PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > > I've noticed (at least when using -e ssh) that if ssh prompts for a > > password or such, and you hit ctrl-c, you're more often than not left > > with a tty with screw

Re: Rsync 2.5.7 --delete not working!!!

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 06:53:54PM -0400, Wesley Joyce wrote: > I am having a problem with rsync not deleting files on the destination that > no longer exist on the source. The command I am using is: rsync -vaz > --delete /bantemp/* backenp650:/bantemp I assume the files at issue are directly i

Re: TODO hardlink performance optimizations

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 03:18:15PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > OK, first pass on TODO complete. > > > PERFORMANCE -- > > > T

Re: TODO hardlink reporting problem - fixed?

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
I changed the description to be a reporting error since that seemed to be what the bug was. Martin, do you concur with John's assessment? If so i'll queuue it for removal after i commit the reorg. On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 02:51:16PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Mon, 15 Dec 200

Re: Prepping for a new release (2.5.8? 2.6.0?)

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:42:58AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 06:42:29PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > Below is a revised file with a TOC at the top. > > Cool, looks like you did a very thorough edit pass (as compared to my > quick once-over). The

Re: Dotfiles not being deleted?

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:37:38AM -0800, Penelope Fudd wrote: > Hello.. > > I'm attempting to copy/sync a development directory on my laptop to our > web server, and for some reason dot-files are being copied but not > deleted. > > Command line: > rsync -rvva --delete-after -e ssh ./ server.com:

Re: Update Archive Flag

2003-12-16 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 11:57:37AM +0100, Jürgen Albinger wrote: [reformatted -- excessively long lines] > Hi All > > We sync our Novell-Servers Version 6 with the Parameter > *avz to our Backupsrv. When a file is changed or it's > new, the file where sync to Backupsrv, the Archive-Flag is > se

Re: default --rsh

2003-12-15 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 08:29:36PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:11:41PM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > It would be worthwhile to add a note in INSTALL to advise people of > > the --with-rsh configure option. > > I would not currently recommend that

Re: Prepping for a new release (2.5.8? 2.6.0?)

2003-12-15 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 11:51:25AM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:51:08AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > > I made one pass through the TODO and INSTALL files looking for outdated > > info. I'd appreciate some other eyes giving these a quick scan. >

default --rsh

2003-12-15 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:51:08AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:03:28AM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > > The one thing i really would have liked to have seen in a version bump > > would have been changing the default remote shell to ssh instead of >

Re: Prepping for a new release (2.5.8? 2.6.0?)

2003-12-15 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:51:08AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 10:03:28AM -0800, jw schultz wrote: > > I wish we had a better handle on the cygwin hang and craigb-perf but i > > don't want to slow things down. > > It sounds like Cygwin might

Re: Prepping for a new release (2.5.8? 2.6.0?)

2003-12-15 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 15, 2003 at 12:57:05AM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Sun, Dec 14, 2003 at 11:32:07PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > > would you care to take the bull by the horns and produce a release > > candidate for 2.5.8 so that the rsync enthusiasts on the rsync mailing > > list can give it a w

Re: dg/ux --delete anomaly

2003-12-13 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:54:34AM -0500, Tim Boyer wrote: > I'm running rsync 2.5.7 on Data General dg/ux 4.20, and just noticed that > the --delete command is not deleting. > > # />ls -la /test > total 5 > drwxr-xr-x 2 root other 512 Dec 13 10:46 . > drwxr-xr-x 37 root root

Re: [RFC] transfer files listed in a file.

2003-12-10 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 10, 2003 at 07:49:51PM -0500, James A. Morrison wrote: > Hi, > > We've found a need to list the files to transfer in a files since > our command lines got too long. Anyway, the attached patch > implements reading from a file with two command line options. > > The first is from-fil

Re: Problem with the file order....

2003-12-09 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 09:48:24PM +0200, Vasil Kolev wrote: > Hi to all, > I've looked at the archives, asked google, and found no solution, so > that's why i'm asking this here. I thought that this should be solved in > some way, but surprisilngly, it looks like it isn't... > > I'm running a d

Re: Rsync died on big directories/file-lists

2003-12-09 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 09, 2003 at 01:54:25PM -0500, Vu Huynh wrote: > > > Hi, > > My name is Vu Huynh. I'm currently work for Atmel Corporation. We're > using Rsync v2.5.7 to rsync design kits between our remote sites. It works > fine for all small kit directories. However, there is 1 BI

Re: 2.5.7 security fixes merged into CVS

2003-12-06 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Dec 06, 2003 at 01:11:27PM -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > I've merged the security fixes that were released in version 2.5.7 into > CVS. I also made similar changes to the malloc() calls that are new in > the CVS version. This version has received very minimal testing, but it > looks good

Re: rsync documentation for "--server" option?

2003-12-03 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 05:16:02PM -0800, Izzy Kindred wrote: > Hello, > > The rsync man page shows example invocations that use the > "--server" option. I could not find documentation for this option (a) > in the man page (b) in the HTML man page on the website (c) in the > "--help" help.

Re: rsync can't set modification time (was: rsync -vt shows directories considered?)

2003-12-03 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 01:03:50PM -0800, James Berry wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2003, at 12:25 PM, jw schultz wrote: > >>>Sounds like another OSX bug. > >> > >>Indeed, it seems that the utime() call in darwin fails with EPERM if > >>the target is not ow

Re: rsync -vt shows directories considered?

2003-12-03 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Dec 03, 2003 at 09:28:19AM -0800, James Berry wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2003, at 8:24 PM, jw schultz wrote: > > >>But I did some more investigation and have a bit more information: > >> > >>(1) This happens only if I don't own the destination directory

Re: rsync -vt shows directories considered?

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:58:39PM -0800, James Berry wrote: > > On Dec 2, 2003, at 6:27 PM, jw schultz wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:30:55AM -0800, James Berry wrote: > >>On Dec 2, 2003, at 8:52 AM, Wayne Davison wrote: > >> > >>>On Tue,

Re: include directory, exclude contents

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:57:00PM -0800, tim wrote: > Forgot to mention this: > > server: rsync version 2.5.4 protocol version 26 > clients: rsync version 2.4.6 protocol version 24 Almost nobody can comment on the behavior of rsync versions from the previous millenium. There have been too ma

Re: rsync -vt shows directories considered?

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 09:30:55AM -0800, James Berry wrote: > On Dec 2, 2003, at 8:52 AM, Wayne Davison wrote: > > >On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 06:27:37AM -0800, James Berry wrote: > >>But the directory inode doesn't need to be updated. It is up to date. > > > >If the modified time of the directory i

Re: Rsync Troubles after NAT router firmware Upgrade.

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 07:07:42PM -0500, Corey Johnson wrote: > Hello, > > I have been using rsync for a long time to send web files from a development > server to a production server. It worked great > until a few days ago when I upgraded the firmware on the Linksys BEFSR11 > Router that the pro

Re: rsync -vt shows directories considered?

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:21:34PM -0800, James Berry wrote: > Passing the -t option to rsync seems to cause -v to show each directory > that is considered, while -v without -t doesn't. > > Is this a known bug or intended feature? Or is there a way to defeat > this? I'd like -v to show the files

Re: unable to open configuration file "rsyncd.conf"

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 04:15:13PM -0500, Michael B Allen wrote: > I'm getting an error trying to pull a file with ssh/rsync: > > $ rsync -e 'ssh -i .ssh/id_rsa' [EMAIL PROTECTED]::www/index.html index.html > rsync: unable to open configuration file "rsyncd.conf": No such file or > directory > rsy

Re: rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620)

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Nov 22, 2003 at 05:44:54PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I am using rsync to backup Maildir directories. Since it is very active, > some files are deleted (and some are added as new mail arrive) from the > time that the list of files are collected and the time of the actual > operation.

Re: copying pointed to links

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 04:00:27PM +0800, Leaw, Chern Jian wrote: > HI, > > I have a filesystem containing a symbolic link. > pglc0003> ls -l |grep TA > lrwxrwxrwx1 cleawadm26 Nov 19 17:23 TA -> > /pgadm1/adm/cleaw/tempArea > > I'd like to copy the symbolic link TA to the /tm

Re: rsync: overhead?

2003-12-02 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 06:11:31PM +0100, Kleiner Hampel wrote: > Hello, > > i am syncing 2 directorys with rsync. > There is nothing to do (i didn't changed anything). > Here is the output: > > building file list ... done > wrote 371 bytes read 20 bytes 782.00 bytes/sec > total size is 5062161

Re: users home directorys

2003-12-01 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 07:39:50PM +1300, Paul William wrote: > Hi All, > > Is it possible for different users to sync their home directory's (which > reside on the same server) using rsync. By that I mean that usera will > using rsync to sync /home/usera and userb will sync /home/userb on the > s

Re: Size Limit in rsyncd.conf File?

2003-12-01 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Dec 01, 2003 at 01:58:11PM -0500, Daemian Mack wrote: > I've got an rsyncd.secrets file with 59 accounts in it. Almost all > these need to be enabled concurrently. My rsyncd.conf thus has an auth > users field with upward of 50 values. I'm starting to wonder at what > point I'll have

Re: how rsync works

2003-11-26 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Nov 27, 2003 at 09:52:53AM +1100, Donovan Baarda wrote: > On Tue, 2003-11-25 at 06:04, jw schultz wrote: > > On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:14:56AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > [...] > > I had thought so too but now i'm less sure. > > > > I put it u

Re: Test case for hard link failure

2003-11-25 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:30:53PM -0800, Pete Wenzel wrote: > The rsync 2.5.6 TODO file mentions the need for hard link test cases. > Here is one in which a linked file is unnecessarily transferred in full. > > # Setup initial directories > mkdir src dest > dd if=/dev/zero bs=1024 count=10

Re: rsync - some issues - as ordinary user

2003-11-25 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:04:48PM +0200, Johan wrote: > Hi, > rsync version 2.5.6 protocol 26.used in mdk 9.2 > I have some difficulties.. > As user internet...in console.. > command... > rsync -auvr /home/internet/tstrsync1/ /mnt/win_d/tstmdk1/ 1> auvr-me.txt 2> > auvr-me.err > > results

Re: Backup with rsync until one month

2003-11-25 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:14:54PM +0100, Nazar Hassan wrote: [reformatted -- please use shorter lines] > Hello, > > I use rsync in the company to make a backup every 4 hours. > > but I would like to do in a way like this, that the rsync > make a backup of the changed files until one mont

Re: Need help with exclude

2003-11-25 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:44:54AM -0600, daniel wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:53:10AM -0600, daniel wrote: > > > Thank you for clarifying the issue with regard to the fact that the > > > exclude pattern is relative to the destination path. You are welcome. > > > > No, it's relative

Re: rsync-bugs and unclear semantics when copying multiple source-dirs to one target

2003-11-25 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 08:46:38AM +0100, Dirk Pape wrote: > Hello Martin, > > Thanks for your fast answer to my problem. I am now happy to have a clear > position from the developer of rsync (though I am not very happy with the > position itself ;-). > > --Am Dienstag, 25. November 2003 12:14

Re: how rsync works

2003-11-24 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Nov 24, 2003 at 09:14:56AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Sun, 26 Oct 2003, jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>?wrote: > >?On Tue, Sep 16, 2003 at 03:49:45AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: > >>? > >>?Aside from numerous other weaknesses that have crept into >

Re: Large RAM (> 4G) and rsync still dies?

2003-11-20 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Nov 20, 2003 at 06:24:27AM -, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello. Hopefully someone can shed some light on this: > > We've got a production server with _LOTS_ of files on it. The system is a dual > XEON with 4GB of RAM. During the evening, the load is very low. Linux shows > (via 'top'

Re: rsync / cygwin hanging problem

2003-11-19 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 06:20:16PM -0500, Jim Salter wrote: > > over ssh on windows. Rsync apparently works OK as a daemon > > on whendoze and when accessing an rsync daemon. > > Actually I'm using Rsync as a client under cygwin / win2K to access rsync in > daemon mode on a FreeBSD 5.1 server. T

Re: rsync / cygwin hanging problem

2003-11-19 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Nov 19, 2003 at 04:28:38PM -0500, Jim Salter wrote: > Has any progress ever been made towards fixing the problem > causing rsync processes to hang in the cygwin environment? > I've tried just using Unison in the windows environment, > since it has a native port, but, um. Unison is probably

Re: Windows XP date/timestamp issues

2003-11-18 Thread jw schultz
On Tue, Nov 18, 2003 at 09:03:42AM -0500, Gavin Durman wrote: > Whenever a Windows XP > system opens a file on the NW server, and then saves the changes, the > date/time stamp doesn't change, That is a serious bug. It isn't an rsync problem per se. If the file sizes don't change to work around

Re: How to change the rsync default tcp port 873 to some other port

2003-11-18 Thread jw schultz
On Wed, Nov 12, 2003 at 02:59:27PM +0800, Sethu Subramanian Rengarajan wrote: > Hi, > I would like to change the rsync default port to something other than 873. I > changed in the rsyncd.conf file. But, still it listens to 873 only. > > How to fix this issue. Given that rsyncd.conf doesn't have a

Re: Special files and Cygwin

2003-11-18 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 09:08:12AM -0800, Pier Paolo Glave wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to use rsync to backup a linux filesystem > to a windows server. > I followed the hints that I found at > http://www.tiarnan.phlegethon.org/rsyncntdoc.html to > run rsync on windows, and it works quite well. >

Re: rsync --daemon and logfile that can't be created

2003-11-18 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 01:35:09PM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote: > If the rsyncd.conf has a line such as: > > log file = /var/log/rsync/log > > and /var/log/rsync doesn't exist or isn't a directory (or the log file > can't be opened for any other reason), then there's no warning > whatsoever, as rs

Re: --include=PATTERN not working!

2003-11-18 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Nov 17, 2003 at 09:14:46PM -, Haisam K. Ido wrote: > but I do have the recursive option on > > -rvaz Then you procede to exclude all subdirs not matching *.lis READ the "EXCLUDE PATTERNS" section a few more times and/or read the list archives. > > On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:02:56PM

Re: Using the rsync checksums for handling large logfiles.

2003-11-17 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:30:32PM +, Alun wrote: > > Dear all, > > I've only just joined this list, but I can't find any mention of this > idea anywhere else, so I thought I'd just post here before getting too > deep into programming and possibly reinventing the wheel. > > Here at Aber, we

Re: --include=PATTERN not working!

2003-11-14 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 10:02:56PM -, Haisam K. Ido wrote: > Why does'nt this work? > > rsync -rvaz --include="*.lis" --exclude='*' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/path/ . > receiving file list ... done > client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the > --recursive option? Looks

Re: "touch" option for -c ?

2003-11-14 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Nov 14, 2003 at 02:15:03PM -0600, Rich Winkel wrote: > Hi, I hope this hasn't been asked before ... I couldn't find it anyway. > > To the best of my knowledge, without the -c option rsync judges file > differences based on date stamp and file size. This speeds things up > of course but ca

Re: IPv6 literal addresses on command line

2003-11-14 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 04:44:18AM -0800, cam wrote: > Hello all, > > Can anyone give me a hint on how to specify an IPv6 address in an > rsync address literal - the colon character is already used to > seperate the host name from the remote directory AFAICT... I get, e.g. > > rsync -Cavb 3ffe:50

Re: an unwanted chroot() call

2003-11-13 Thread jw schultz
On Thu, Nov 13, 2003 at 09:51:51AM -0500, Joe Batt wrote: > Would it help if rsync detected whether it is run as root or not and > enable or disabled these features automatically (with warnings). I've > wasted lots of time trying to get rsync to work in userland due to > safety checks like this (m

Re: Next release of rsync - when?

2003-11-10 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Nov 10, 2003 at 09:52:22PM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Mon, 10 Nov 2003, Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > ... This fix is also in CVS (along with several others). > > As another poster pointed out recently, it's been a long time since > 2.5.6 was released (Jan 28 2003

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