Re: RFE: Lockfile option for use in cronjobs
On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:43 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: Looking for an easy way to prevent a repetitive rsync to be running multiple times, I was wondering if it could be useful to have an option like: --pidfile /some/path/rsync-mirror-org.pid So that rsync can be run directly from cron without requiring a wrapper script to do pidfile handling. This way rsync on startup could check the pid-file, see if another rsync is using this pid, and bail out with an error if it is. Otherwise clean up the stale pidfile and continue. I think this would be very useful to instruct mirrors how to configure it, rather than providing some script that needs local customizations. I'm not convinced that a pidfile is better implemented in rsync than in a wrapper script, which could be distributed in support/ of the source tree. If you don't care about actually having the pid in the file, you could use the flock(1) utility, which executes a command while holding a flock(2) lock on a specified file: flock --nonblock /some/path/rsync-mirror-org.lock rsync ... If the process goes away, the lock will too, so no manual cleanup of stale locks is needed. The flock utility is great. I learn something new everyday :) Thanks a lot ! -- -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: RFE: Lockfile option for use in cronjobs
On Thu, 10 Apr 2008, Dag Wieers wrote: On Wed, 2 Apr 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: On Mon, 2008-03-31 at 11:43 +0200, Dag Wieers wrote: Looking for an easy way to prevent a repetitive rsync to be running multiple times, I was wondering if it could be useful to have an option like: --pidfile /some/path/rsync-mirror-org.pid So that rsync can be run directly from cron without requiring a wrapper script to do pidfile handling. This way rsync on startup could check the pid-file, see if another rsync is using this pid, and bail out with an error if it is. Otherwise clean up the stale pidfile and continue. I think this would be very useful to instruct mirrors how to configure it, rather than providing some script that needs local customizations. I'm not convinced that a pidfile is better implemented in rsync than in a wrapper script, which could be distributed in support/ of the source tree. If you don't care about actually having the pid in the file, you could use the flock(1) utility, which executes a command while holding a flock(2) lock on a specified file: flock --nonblock /some/path/rsync-mirror-org.lock rsync ... If the process goes away, the lock will too, so no manual cleanup of stale locks is needed. The flock utility is great. I learn something new everyday :) Just noticed that the flock utility is fairly recent (since util-linux 2.13) which means that on most systems you do not have it. For RHEL that means only available since RHEL5 :-( That could be one of the reasons to have it as part of rsync (to facilitate the distribution of a cron-job or simply make sure your mirrors are using best practices without too much complexity). -- -- dag wieers, [EMAIL PROTECTED], http://dag.wieers.com/ -- [Any errors in spelling, tact or fact are transmission errors] -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Howto: Mac OS X to Windows VM
Hi, I have a mac pro and a windows Vm which I want to keep sync. I tired using other Sync programs but they do not seems to be working. I tend to leave applications running which create their own temp files in its own specific folder, which caused the other sync programs to crash. I tired SyncToy by MS and Unison. I am looking for a bi-directional sync program that runs in the background and syncs any changes caused to the folder. I heard that rsync can slove this problem for me, but I am not sure how. Can any one be of hlep to me? - Rama -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: Howto: Mac OS X to Windows VM
On Wed, 2008-04-09 at 17:12 -0500, Rama D. Chavali wrote: I have a mac pro and a windows Vm which I want to keep sync. I tired using other Sync programs but they do not seems to be working. I tend to leave applications running which create their own temp files in its own specific folder, which caused the other sync programs to crash. I tired SyncToy by MS and Unison. I am looking for a bi-directional sync program that runs in the background and syncs any changes caused to the folder. I heard that rsync can slove this problem for me, but I am not sure how. For bidirectional synchronization, I would recommend Unison. AFAIK, it doesn't have a mode to listen for changes in the background and act on them immediately, but you could configure a cron job or scheduled task to invoke Unison every few minutes. If you encountered a problem with Unison, you can get help via the mailing list at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/unison-users . Matt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: 3.0.2 get_xattr_names on sockets?
On Wed, Apr 09, 2008 at 04:19:42PM +0100, Paul Reilly wrote: I've compiled a fresh copy of rsync 3.0.2 (version info below) on MacOSX Leopard Server 10.5.1 and am doing an rsync of the whole system like this: [...] It works OK, but returns with a failure error code, and the following errors relating to files with sockets. If you apply the patches/fileflags.diff, it adds some tests that skips trying to get xattrs on devices and special files. I also recommend the patches/crtimes.diff for OS X. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5381] make test fails without /etc/rsyncd.conf
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5381 [EMAIL PROTECTED] changed: What|Removed |Added Status|NEW |ASSIGNED --- Comment #1 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-10 09:53 CST --- That test is doing a daemon-over-remote-shell test using a shell script as a pretend remote shell to do a transfer with the localhost. This expects the rsyncd.conf file to be in the current directory of the test run, and does not need the /etc/rsyncd.conf file to be present. I have tested this on Linux to verify this, so am curious what is causing it to fail for you. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
some questions about do_server_sender and do_server_recv in rsync-0.1
Hello,I'm studying the source code of rsync-0.1 recently.Because the latest version is so complicated, I have to start my study from rsync-0.1 for simplicity. In the main.c file of rsync-0.1, there are two functions--do_server_sender and do_server_recv.I don't know when they work.When I want to transfer files between a local client and a remote server, I could use command: rsync src [EMAIL PROTECTED]:dest or rsync [EMAIL PROTECTED]:src dest.But what's the commant format if I want to call --do_server_sender and do_server_recv? And I wonder that -s and -S option each stands for in rsync command because they are related to do_server_sender and do_server_recv. Thank you! 2008-04-10 alanqk -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5365] --backup and --xattrs are not compatible
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5365 --- Comment #2 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-10 11:30 CST --- now rsync version : 3.0.2 (no patch) option : --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync -avWAX --del --force --backup --backup-dir=`date` 3 errors : 1: [sender] internal abbrev error! rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at xattrs.c(548) [sender=3.0.2] rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [generator]: Broken pipe (32) rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(1543) [generator=3.0.2] rsync error: received SIGUSR1 (code 19) at main.c(1277) [receiver=3.0.2] 2: Missing abbreviated xattr value, com.apple.ResourceFork, for /Volumes/Data/Sauvegardes/DESC1_VOL1/20080410-16h14/DESCMDL/BASE-Studio.DF1 Missing abbreviated xattr value, com.apple.ResourceFork, for /Partages/DESC1_VOL1/DESCMDL/.BASE-Studio.DF1.yaEeuH 3: rsync: writefd_unbuffered failed to write 4 bytes [sender]: Broken pipe (32) rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (913 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(635) [sender=3.0.2] There are the sames error with rsync 3.0.2 and the acls.diff and xattr.diff patches. (with --protocol=29 no run too) Thanks -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5324] Reduce the performance penalty of --xattrs on Mac OS X
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5324 --- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-10 11:35 CST --- One solution to this might be to create a hash of all the names and xattr data, and then store the xattrs in a hash lookup. That should speed things up quite a bit when the list of unique xattr values grows large. Thank you, but how do it this hash ? thank's a lot (I use now the rsync 3.0.2) -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
Re: rsync error: some files could not be transferred -- How to ignore
On Tue, 2008-04-08 at 21:27 -0600, Kenneth Seal wrote: In my case, rsync displays the error code rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) and it kills my script. Do you have any advice on how would I go about writing, researching etc. a script to tell rsync to ignore such errors? If I were you, I would try to fix the code 23 instead of ignoring it! Rsync exits with code 23 when at least one non-fatal error occurs that may affect the correctness of the transfer. Perhaps the errors currently causing the code 23 are unimportant, but if you ignore code 23, you risk missing more important errors in the future (e.g., the nonexistence of a source argument). Look for the specific error messages in the output that are causing the code 23. If it isn't immediately obvious how to fix them, post them to the list and I'll take a look. Or if you don't care about copying the offending files, you can --exclude them. Matt signature.asc Description: This is a digitally signed message part -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5365] --backup and --xattrs are not compatible
https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5365 --- Comment #3 from [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2008-04-10 13:57 CST --- Yes, that's why this bug is marked as assigned and not fixed. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email --- You are receiving this mail because: --- You are the QA contact for the bug, or are watching the QA contact. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
web site suggestion
Wayne et al, 2 suggestions/requests for the web pages. 1) could you add the appropriate CVE numbers to the security page? e.g., for the recent release, CVE-2008-1720. Optionally, include a link to the appropriate CVE page. I'm not sure what the status of cve.mitre.org is, this advisory doesn't show up there yet. The first google hit is: http://nvd.nist.gov/nvd.cfm?cvename=CVE-2008-1720 2) add a link to the security page in the nav area at the top of the site template. The link you put at the top of the home page is great but having security be always easily available would be cool. thanks! danno -- Dan Pritts, Sr. Systems Engineer Internet2 office: +1-734-352-4953 | mobile: +1-734-834-7224 Be part of the future! 2008 Internet2 Strategic Planning http://www.internet2.edu/strategicplanning -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
