why does rsync translate user@host into '$RSYNC_RSH -l user host'?

2011-10-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
sshto is my own tool I can probably have it cope with this mangling of my target string into -l foo bah, and undo it. But WHY does rsync believe this is desirable, or even necessary? Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ If NT is the answer, you

Re: why does rsync translate user@host into '$RSYNC_RSH -l user host'?

2011-10-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
the original question: | | On 10/19/11 03:40, Cameron Simpson wrote: | Why does rsync believe it knows more about the use of the token | to the left of the colon than the program which will be used as | the remote connection? | | [...] | | what it invokes is: | | sshto -l cameron

Re: why does rsync translate user@host into '$RSYNC_RSH -l user host'?

2011-10-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 19Oct2011 22:14, Brian K. White br...@aljex.com wrote: | On 10/19/2011 6:58 PM, Cameron Simpson wrote: | On 19Oct2011 12:02, Benjamin R. Haskellrs...@benizi.com wrote: | | rsync has to parse the URL you're passing. The fact that it then | | takes that and runs something like `$RSYNC_RSH -l

Re: files not moved immediately to final destination from temp location after rsync returns with success

2011-04-22 Thread Cameron Simpson
to the card device, _outside the filesystem_, can should incompleteness. But that's not what the OP is doing AFAIK. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Some people have all the luck. When I find the guy with mine, I'm gonna kick his teeth

--exclude=/ seems not to work as I want

2009-03-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
no changes of any kind to the target (yes, I know -n will do that too:-) Any thoughts? I would have hoped the first (the no-op) would do, and feel that maybe it should at least elicit an error message. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson c...@zip.com.au DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Out

Re: need good wrapper

2005-06-10 Thread Cameron Simpson
expecting that the sshd on the remote system is not setting $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND. What version of ssh is being run on the remote system? Test mechanism: ssh host env and see what is there. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] DoD#743 http://www.cskk.ezoshosting.com/cs/ Gross

Re: BUG REPORT: latest rsync misinvokes ssh with [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...

2005-06-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
On 08Jun2005 08:38, Wayne Davison [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Wed, Jun 08, 2005 at 02:14:05PM +1000, Cameron Simpson wrote: | in short, rsync is seeing the [EMAIL PROTECTED] and invoking: | ssh ali -l root rsync-daemon-invocation... | | This should only happen if remsh is present on your

BUG REPORT: latest rsync misinvokes ssh with [EMAIL PROTECTED] ...

2005-06-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
command itself has permitted this to go unnoticed. Personally I'm of the opinion that rsync shouldn't parse the [EMAIL PROTECTED]: prefix at all (other than detecting it), and should not break it into -l user and host. Can someone elucidate the reasoning behind this change? Cheers, -- Cameron

Re: PATCH: better progress reporting

2002-03-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
this. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ I will not do it as a hack I will not do it for my friends I will not do it on a MacI will not write for Uncle Sam I will not do it on weekends I won't do ADA, Sam-I-Am - Gregory Bond [EMAIL

Re: rsync-2.5.1 / socket.c - unititialized variable breaks build.

2002-01-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
that be error != 0 ? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ There's no need to worry about death, it will not happen in your lifetime. - Raymond Smullyan

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:00:05AM -0600, Dave Dykstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | On Sat, Dec 08, 2001 at 12:05:44AM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: | On 7 Dec 2001, Cameron Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Please don't take this path - ownerships on symlinks are a pretty | meaningless concept

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-07 Thread Cameron Simpson
, or will. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Machine, you are about to be lobotomised, please don't take it personally. It happens to the best of us. Then they become managers. - [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Evans)

Re: bug in permissions on symlinks

2001-12-06 Thread Cameron Simpson
long offended me that the default chown/chgrp/chmod calls follow links - to my mind the _only_ system calls that should follow links are open() and chdir(). It would have made for a much saner and safer world. /RANT -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs

Re: command= and arbitrary keys...

2001-12-01 Thread Cameron Simpson
, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ If you lie to the compiler, it will get its revenge.- Henry Spencer

Re: new rsync feature

2001-10-08 Thread Cameron Simpson
) or any other arbitrary post-sync action? Bearing in mind, o those-wanting-chown-and-chgrp, that for myself, were I to want this, I'd perhaps only want chown and not chgrp (I don't mean to lack one feature, I mean only using one feature). -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: rsync and SSL

2001-09-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
, whatever) afresh on the new session? That way we could do SMTP over SSL etc etc transparently: clients connect, say SSL, if rejected either fall back or fall out, and if accepted then away we all go. Is there some technical reason for not doing things this way? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743

Re: rsync matches wrong ssh key

2001-07-19 Thread Cameron Simpson
very annoying that it seems not to try the -i key _first_, or preferably _only_. Can you a) send me that ssh -v transcript and b) tell me which key it does get in with? You don't perchance have phraseless identity key do you? -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http

Re: rsync matches wrong ssh key

2001-07-15 Thread Cameron Simpson
, repeatedly. Not any more. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ If it can't be turned off, it's not a feature. - Karl Heuer

Re: Applying file permissions mask during rsync

2001-06-09 Thread Cameron Simpson
exclusion list for each run. Cheers, -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ When asked about his crash entering Daytona's chicane this year, Dale Quartely said I saw Elvis. You know you're in trouble when you see Elvis because the next thing you see is God.

Re: rsync exit codes

2001-05-29 Thread Cameron Simpson
zero - both sides different and -n used - non-zero - both sides different, no -n, successful update - zero - both sides different, no -n, unsuccessful update - non-zero This doesn't seem to be the case. -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http

RE: Backing up *alot* of files

2001-02-23 Thread Cameron Simpson
for a complete run. | Now the big question : How long will next run take (most likely, only a few | files has changed) ? Hopefully only a little less than 2 hours (assuming negligible changes). -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743[EMAIL PROTECTED]http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ It is a tale told by an idiot