Re: timeout and process cleanup bugs 2.4.7pre1+

2001-11-12 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 10:29:14AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have written an application in perl, to run multiple rsyncs, retrying those which fail. I have started getting this error on very large modules since i moved to the latest CVS version.

direct write patch

2001-11-12 Thread Don Mahurin
I have attached a patch that supports a new --direct-write option. The result of using this option is to write directly to the destination files, instead of a temporary file first. The reason this patch is needed is for rsyncing to a device where the device is full or nearly full. Say that I

Re: direct write patch

2001-11-12 Thread Dave Dykstra
Oh boy, I think you're getting into quite a can of worms there. At a minimum this option should imply the --partial option because if the operation is aborted the file will be left partially transferred. Note that if you're trying to use the rsync rolling checksum algorithm to minimize

Re: direct write patch

2001-11-12 Thread Don Mahurin
Perhaps, all that I need is a --delete-before-update option that just unlinks the file before it starts to write the temp file. Then we avoid the possible issues that you raised. I can still see a case where --direct-write may be useful (read-write file in a read-only dir), but this is

more info for rsyncs not exiting problem

2001-11-12 Thread Jessica Koeppel
Apologies for not including this info in the first place! My rsycn version is: rsync version 2.4.6 Copyright Andrew Tridgell and Paul Mackerras And my OS is: Red Hat Linux release 7.1 (Seawolf) Kernel 2.4.2-2 on an i686 --jessica On Fri, Nov 09, 2001 at 08:43:44PM -0800, Jessica Koeppel

Re: direct write patch

2001-11-12 Thread Dave Dykstra
On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:50:01AM -0800, Don Mahurin wrote: Perhaps, all that I need is a --delete-before-update option that just unlinks the file before it starts to write the temp file. Then we avoid the possible issues that you raised. I can still see a case where --direct-write may be

Re: rsync exclude/include [FIDUCIAvirengeprüft - ohne Gewähr, daß alle bekanntenViren und deren Varianten erkannt wurden.]

2001-11-12 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Hi again! Tomasz Ciolek [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13.11.2001 01:21:27 An: Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie: Thema:Re: rsync exclude/include [FIDUCIA virengeprüft - ohne Gewähr, daß alle bekannten Viren und deren Varianten erkannt wurden.] Try dumoping the whole file list

Re: rsync exclude/include [FIDUCIA virengepr?ft - ohne Gew?hr, da? allebekannten Viren und deren Varianten erkannt wurden.]

2001-11-12 Thread Thomas Schweikle
Tomasz Ciolek [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 13.11.2001 01:51:25 An: Thomas Schweikle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Kopie:Tomasz Ciolek tmc Thema:Re: rsync exclude/include [FIDUCIA virengepr?ft - ohne Gew?hr, da? alle bekannten Viren und deren Varianten erkannt wurden.] Umm loose the spaces

mirrorring mailserver

2001-11-12 Thread Michael P. Carel
Hi to all, Im just a RSYNC newbie, i've tried to set this up and evaluate. Im trying to create a mirror of my mail server but what i observed during my test of this rsync the ownership are being changed(501) when it was downloaded to my mirror.I have the following test config with my server: