Re: rsync and missing files?

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:57:56AM -0500, John Madden wrote: send_files failed to open //home/user/Maildir/new/_dwG.NeZv8.blah: No such file or directory rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578) On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:50:41AM -0701, Jos Backus wrote: I'd be quite happy

Re: no output from perl script

2002-04-25 Thread Joseph Annino
I see a lot of good advice has been posted about stuff that is quite good to know about perl. A simpler solution though might be the File::Rsync module available on CPAN. I use it a lot and it works very well. It will generate the rsync command line for you, and it can be given a callback which

Re: rsync 2.5.5 --delete-after option bug

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 12:08:56PM -0400, Corey Stup wrote: The option --delete-after does not seem to work. In a command such as rysnc -avzSH --progress --stats --delete-after remote::XYZ/dirX /export/home files removed from the source are not removed at the destination.

Re: rsync server over SSH

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Apr 16, 2002 at 01:04:09PM +1000, Martin Pool wrote: I haven't had a chance to test this recently, but Dave just reminded me that it ought to merge soon and I agree. I was thinking about this the other day in the context of the Bitkeeper bk url manpage (if Colin will forgive me :-).

Re: 4.4BSD chflags support for rsync

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
I'm sorry for the long delay in replying. I'm cleaning up my rsync mailbox now after a one week vacation and about a month of not having time to look at it. I think the --flags patch is probably fine, except that that the short description should at least say preserve file flags instead of just

Re: Rsync ownership/group/permission on Windows and Linux question

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
I'm cleaning out my rsync mailbox and it looks like nobody responded to your questions. On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 02:56:18AM -0600, Poe Chen wrote: Hi, all, I'd like to know if there is a way to set the ownership/group/permission when you are transfering files from a Windows clients to a

Re: Rsync message: client: nothing to do

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Tue, Mar 26, 2002 at 06:18:40PM -0800, Yuri Kretov wrote: Hello, May be I am wrong, but why rsync tells me that it's nothing to do? I just want to synchronize the directory's attributes (with no recursion) such as: permissions, owner, group and time. Example: === host1# pwd

Re: Handling of backup files - two new features proposed

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Apr 01, 2002 at 06:14:38PM +0200, Michael Zimmermann wrote: Dear list members, there are two new rsync-features I made up and would like to discuss with you. If you think these new features might be useful for the whole rsync-community, please give me a note and I'll send you the

Re: Patch to avoid 'Connection reset by peer' error for rsync on cygwin

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
Does anybody know if this might cause problems on non-Windows machines? Would shutdown need to be checked in configure, or is it implemented on all Unix variants? I don't recall ever seeing a need for it on Unix. - Dave On Wed, Apr 03, 2002 at 11:39:57AM +0100, Max Bowsher wrote: The problem

Re: rsync 2.5.5 --delete-after option bug

2002-04-25 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, 25 Apr 2002, Dave Dykstra wrote: I think --delete-after should imply --delete. Would someone like to work up the simple patch to the code and the man page? Sure. Here's one (note that the OPT_DELETE_AFTER enum was already defined for some reason). ..wayne..

Re: [rproxy-devel] rdiff deltas not very good compared to pysync, why?

2002-04-25 Thread Donovan Baarda
On Wed, Apr 24, 2002 at 09:46:09PM -0400, Shirish H. Phatak wrote: Hi Martin, I can definitely help in managing the librsync package, especially since I will be maintaining our local tree anyway. As of now, I don't have the resources to get the Windows stuff tested; however, I can

Re: Block of unwanted zeros in a dest file

2002-04-25 Thread Dave Dykstra
Eric, which version of Sun operating system were you running, and was there any NFS involved? What's a NAS disk? I had a user who reported having rsync (a CVS version between 2.5.4 and 2.5.5) produce a file filled with nulls but he was copying from a Solaris client which was mounting over NFS

Re: Block of unwanted zeros in a dest file

2002-04-25 Thread Eric Whiting
Dave Dykstra wrote: Eric, which version of Sun operating system were you running, and was there any NFS involved? What's a NAS disk? Yes NFS on both ends. Solaris 8 on destination. Netapps NAS boxes on both ends. NAS -- Network Attached Storage. Netapps F720 NFS 'toaster' boxes. (lots of

testing

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Winkel
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Re: invalid uid rsync (was Re: rsync HELP!!!) (get a clue about writing Subject lines)

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Pool
On 25 Apr 2002, Dave Dykstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Did you mean rsync's call to chroot, or a chroot around the whole invocation of rsync? Rsync's chroot doesn't happen until after the uid = in rsyncd.conf is processed, so that still works without copying in the passwd file. Oh, quite

symmetric mirroring (was testing)

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Winkel
Sorry for the junk mail, it seems my last post was lost in the ether, despite being successfully delivered to lists.samba.org (!) Very frustrating, since I didn't keep a copy of it. My question was regarding what might be called symmetric mirroring, where two sets of identical files, both being

Re: Patch to avoid 'Connection reset by peer' error for rsync on cygwin

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Pool
On 25 Apr 2002, Dave Dykstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is caused because rsync does not close its sockets, and WinSock is a quite strict on this. The solution is to shutdown and close the fd. This is a 5-minute hack I've done to fix the obvious occurrences of the problem. It

Re: symmetric mirroring (was testing)

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Pool
On 25 Apr 2002, Rich Winkel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry for the junk mail, it seems my last post was lost in the ether, despite being successfully delivered to lists.samba.org (!) Very frustrating, since I didn't keep a copy of it. My question was regarding what might be called symmetric

Re: rsync and missing files?

2002-04-25 Thread Jos Backus
On Thu, Apr 25, 2002 at 12:18:59PM -0500, Dave Dykstra wrote: The code is currently doing a continue after that error, not an exit, so it should be continuing on to do the rest of the files before it exits. However, an error message is printed at exit time. It sounds like the files rsync

Re: rsync raising an IO error for an excluded file

2002-04-25 Thread Martin Pool
On 25 Apr 2002, Dave Dykstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Shouldn't/couldn't the ignore silently if excluded be specified less strictly to cover the above permission denied error as well? I think you're right. Martin Pool, what do you think? Martin Bene, could you please try coding and

Re: 4.4BSD chflags support for rsync

2002-04-25 Thread Rolf Grossmann
Hi Dave, on Thu, 25 Apr 2002 15:52:56 -0500 Dave Dykstra wrote concerning Re: 4.4BSD chflags support for rsync something like this: I think the --flags patch is probably fine, except that that the short description should at least say preserve file flags instead of just preserve flags since

Re: symmetric mirroring (was testing)

2002-04-25 Thread Rich Winkel
Hi Martin, I guess I need to be more specific. I have a unix user who has unix machines at home and at work. He wants local access to the same set of files whether he's at home or at work. If each side updates a non-overlapping set of files you can do this using --update to push only the

limiting metadata updates

2002-04-25 Thread Phil Howard
Is there a way to specify to rsync that metadata should NOT be updated unless the object was created, or the contents of a file was modified. Specifically, what I want to do is use rsync to install a file tree of a few changes (a package being replicated to multiple machines after it has been