Re: -b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/ combination doesnot act as expected

2003-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
[I apparently lost some of my email that was sent to my samba.org address due to some bogus spam filtering involving my use of spamcop.org (which I just turned off). I looked up your reply in a mailing list archive on the web...] My only concern is that i don't like depending on

Re: -b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/ combination doesnot act as expected

2003-08-01 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:21:53AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: [I apparently lost some of my email that was sent to my samba.org address due to some bogus spam filtering involving my use of spamcop.org (which I just turned off). I looked up your reply in a mailing list archive on the web...]

Weird hanging problem with rsync

2003-08-01 Thread Bauer, Georg
Hi! I have a weird problem I can't quite grasp. I rsync machines directories to a central machine and backup from there to tape. So far so fine. But I have weird hangings with rsync doing nothing whatsoever on some files. If this situation arises, rsync won't go on with processing, won't actually

Re: -b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/ combination doesnot act as expected

2003-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:51:53AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: If for some reason they specify --suffix=~ --backup-dir=../foo it should create the backup files with the requested suffix. Yes, I totally agree. Fortunately, that's what the code does. We want to send the suffix if they

Re: -b --suffix '' --delete --backup-dir /path/ combination doesnot act as expected

2003-08-01 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 09:57:15AM -0700, Wayne Davison wrote: On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 01:51:53AM -0700, jw schultz wrote: If for some reason they specify --suffix=~ --backup-dir=../foo it should create the backup files with the requested suffix. Yes, I totally agree. Fortunately,

Re: [rsync@b] Re: rsync 2.5.6 globbing bug

2003-08-01 Thread Bert
I must say I'm slightly dismayed by the less-than-enthusiastic response I have received - I've identified a problem, root-cause it and even offered to submit a fix - what exactly is the problem? While I don't know about the ins-and-outs of globbing libraries (and, therefore, can't judge ease,

Re: [rsync@b] Re: rsync 2.5.6 globbing bug

2003-08-01 Thread jw schultz
On Fri, Aug 01, 2003 at 07:18:40PM -0400, Bert wrote: I must say I'm slightly dismayed by the less-than-enthusiastic response I have received - I've identified a problem, root-cause it and even offered to submit a fix - what exactly is the problem? While I don't know about the ins-and-outs

Re: rsync 2.5.6 timeout bug

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Burlison
Alan Burlison wrote: That is what really happens. The client specified timeout is passed over the wire for use by the server but if the server has a value specified in rsyncd.conf that value will override the client. OK, right - thanks for the clarification. Still leaves me with the puzzle of

Re: [rsync@b] Re: rsync 2.5.6 globbing bug

2003-08-01 Thread Alan Burlison
jw schultz wrote: While I don't know about the ins-and-outs of globbing libraries (and, therefore, can't judge ease, etc)... The whole it's rare [and an obscure (imo) work around exists] so let's not worry about it is a reason to reject a feature, NOT a bug fix. As Alan already has done much

Re: rsync 2.5.6 timeout bug

2003-08-01 Thread jw schultz
On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 01:00:47AM +0100, Alan Burlison wrote: Alan Burlison wrote: That is what really happens. The client specified timeout is passed over the wire for use by the server but if the server has a value specified in rsyncd.conf that value will override the client. OK,

rsync on Windows 2000?

2003-08-01 Thread John E. Malmberg
What is the status of rsync on Windows 2000? I was looking to install it on my test system, and the download directory has a readme file that says I need the cygnus gnu-win32 library. The link refers me to the index page for cygnus, with no way to get to a download area. A google search shows

Re: rsync on Windows 2000?

2003-08-01 Thread cbarratt
John E. Malmberg writes: What is the status of rsync on Windows 2000? I was looking to install it on my test system, and the download directory has a readme file that says I need the cygnus gnu-win32 library. The link refers me to the index page for cygnus, with no way to get to a

CVS update: rsync

2003-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Aug 1 07:58:41 2003 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv10438 Modified Files: backup.c Log Message: Use the new backup_suffix_len and backup_dir_len variables. Got rid of the suffix_specified kludge. Revisions: backup.c

CVS update: rsync

2003-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Aug 1 07:58:45 2003 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv10451 Modified Files: options.c Log Message: Got rid of suffix_specified and instead set backup_suffix to the correct default value for the current backup_dir mode. Added

CVS update: rsync

2003-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Aug 1 08:01:15 2003 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv10975 Modified Files: NEWS Log Message: Mention the --backup fix. Revisions: NEWS1.116 = 1.117

CVS update: rsync

2003-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Aug 1 19:40:31 2003 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv23999 Modified Files: options.c Log Message: Complain if the --suffix value contains slashes (which is all too easy to accidentally have happen if you try to specify ~ with

CVS update: rsync

2003-08-01 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Fri Aug 1 20:19:51 2003 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv27999 Modified Files: options.c Log Message: Change the way we pass the --suffix option to the remote process so that a string that starts with ~ doesn't get modified.