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As a Cygwin rsync package maintainer, the following security fixes have
been brought to my attention:
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-misc/rsync/files/rsync-2.6.9-stats-fix.patch
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-misc/rsync/files/rsync-2.6.9-fname-obo.patch
Lapo Luchini wrote:
As a Cygwin rsync package maintainer, the following security fixes have
been brought to my attention:
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-misc/rsync/files/rsync-2.6.9-stats-fix.patch
http://sources.gentoo.org/viewcvs.py/gentoo-x86/net-misc/rsync/files
Matt McCutchen wrote:
As far as I know, the problem has not been fixed. Since you have a
setup that hangs consistently, you could do an enormous favor for all
rsync-on-Cygwin users if you brought up the problem again on the
Cygwin list and worked with the Cygwin people to get it solved once
Andre Zimmermann wrote:
They are listed as system folders \\tsclient\C\. I have tried
rsync -rvt /cygdrive/f/andrestuff/AZPHD/test
/cygdrive/tsclient/C/andrestuff/AZPHD/test
The UNC path should be translated to //tsclient/C/ i.e. left alone,
except forward slash use (it works also with
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Joel Brown wrote:
So I think that the Administrator account in some way
has less privileges than the SERVICE account but I
just can't work out what the crucial differences
relating to running as a service are.
I think each WinXP account has a can
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Wayne Davison wrote:
Though I haven't tried it, I believe that means that you can just
install rsync and the cygwin dll.
Yes, should work as far as rsync is the only cygwin-based tool on the
system.
This is generally discouraged, though, because
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Is there any command line option to change the remote rsync command?
My idea would be to use nice rsync instead of rsync remotely, to
backup servers that are under heavy load...
Lapo
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Lapo Luchini wrote:
This third attempt solves both the august security fix and the textmode
bug that 2.6.2-2 had.
Whoops, I forgot to ask if the patch could be kindly included in the
original source (it follows). I don't think there is any reason
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Version 2.6.2-3 of the open source utility that provides
fast incremental file transfer has been uploaded.
If you're not sure what version do you
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Stuart Halliday wrote:
A you never said you had XP Home!
Perhaps it uses 'simple file sharing' by default?
In fact I think WinXP Home uses simple file sharing and that's all.
But on the WinXP Home I have on my laptop I happily avoid it using
Brian wrote:
Hi,
I get a Local: Bad packet length 1349676916 when I try to use
rsync-minimalist. I tried with the provided cygwin and with the latest
cygwin.
Used options, debug info, and/or other infos?
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Pier Paolo Glave wrote:
| The only problem I found is that windows is not able to backup
| linux special files (/dev/*).
I suggest to tar them up, in order to preserve full infos.
If you avoid compression of the tar file or use gzip with the option
jw schultz wrote:
What is the general recommendation for compression when using ssh?
Use rsync's compression.
If so, is there a clear prefference which is more efficient, rsync or ssh?
Yes.
Why, if they both use zlib?
Moreover compressing at a higher level always seems a good
Donovan Baarda wrote:
Any actual reason not to do that?
rsync can use what I refer to in pysync as context compression. This
is where the matching data is compressed even though the matching
compressed data is not transmitted (because the other end already has
it). This primes the compressor
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Gary Myers wrote:
| The page has been updated accordingly, and now offers the Source Code
| as per the GPL requirements. It no longer offers the Cygwin code -
| people will have to follow the links to the site.
If people should install Cygwin anyway
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Jim Salter wrote:
| I'm not entirely sure what that site's reason for existence is. It
| says it requires cygwin, and cygwin already comes pre-packaged with
| rsync, so ...?
Moreover that website doesn't comply to the GPL license, as it has no
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Piotr Krukowiecki wrote:
| I wasn't aware that cygwin have rsync, that makes things much easier
| :)
|
| I plan of using only server mode so that should not bother me.
Refer to /usr/doc/Cygwin/rsync-2.5.6.README to install it as a windows
service:
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Captain Nice wrote:
| Another related thing, my rsync hang many times after completing the
| work. I need to press ^C to end it.
Rsync-Cygwin related hang problem is (the biggest) known problem of
rsync on cygwin, right now.
It *seems* to be a problem
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Hi to the list.
Yesterday the new test release of CygWin (1.5.3) became stable and
with that many cygwin packages, rsync-2.5.6-3 (compiled for cygwin
1.5.x) among them.
This means that everyone had better open http://cygwin.com/setup.exe and
upgrade it
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King, Daniel wrote:
|I seem to be having a spot of trouble getting to any public key servers
from
|my current location, and the files provided (as above) on the Samba ftp
site
|don't seem to be adequate by themselves:
The is no big security in
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jw schultz wrote:
I've attached an altered patch. I've only dealt with this
one location which produced errors doing a ssh pull.
OK, I created a test package with your patch included, so that anyone
willing to test but not wililng to compile can use
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_Chris McKeever_ wrote:
The linux machine connecting to the windows rsync daemon has a very low
performance hit when the session is running (see below). However, the
windows machine, which has a much faster CPU hits a CPU usage of 100%.
rsync CPU
Each time I send a message to the ML I receive this message... (thi
mislead me to double-post some days ago).
Could someone please unsubscribe the blocked address?
But I guess that's not possible, as anyone else shuold have noticed
this, too... =(
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jw schultz wrote:
I'd then consider that the cygwin binaries might have been
built incorrectly. After that, i don't know, perhaps
creeping corruption on the two machines?
BTW: those are my latest builds or rsync/cygwin:
$ md5sum /usr/bin/rsync.exe
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jw schultz wrote:
I'd then consider that the cygwin binaries might have been
built incorrectly. After that, i don't know, perhaps
creeping corruption on the two machines?
BTW: those are my latest builds or rsync/cygwin:
$ md5sum /usr/bin/rsync.exe
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jw schultz wrote:
Perhaps that is the document he needs. If not could you
cygwinese, cygwinites, cygwinists, cygwinim or whatever
point him to one that will clear up the slash/backslash
Bert wrote:
While I don't know the cygwin architecture details, it looks like the
/cygdrive functionality is a part of cygwin.dll and can be used
without a parent bash shell.
It is part of it's POSIX-layerness, indeed, and it's storen in the
registry, so it needs no startup script to set it
jw schultz wrote:
On Sat, May 31, 2003 at 09:48:47AM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote:
Actually it seems to me the opposite: it has perms also without -p...
maybe it is the default?
Without -p new files get perms of source as modified by
umask.
Ohhh.
Maybe it's just me, but wouldn't
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Oswell, Michael wrote:
[sorry for the full quote, but I'm CCing the cygwin mailing list too]
I am attempting to use rsync to mirror data between several windows 2000
and windows XP systems. I am a UNIX person by nature, so decided the
easiest way to go about doing this would be to use Cygwin with
Well, what to say... my computer is ok again, I *just* have to read some
thousands emails and I can begin contribute again =P
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Dmitry Melekhov wrote:
Hello!
I want to start rsync on w2k as service.
If I try to start rsync from command line it simply do nothig:
$ rsync --daemon
Sorry to you and other people that waits for me to test/debug
cygwin-specific problems in latest rsync, but my windows machine is
actually
Dave Dykstra wrote:
I suspect it's also the
reason why the build.samba.org cygwin machine hasn't reported a result
in the last 9 hours.
Nope.. problems with the CPU fan-cooler =(
I'm taking it back out and washing my hands of the cygwin rsync port, I'm fed up.
I'll catch up with Max
Dave Dykstra wrote:
What, in particular? I'm not a very good testcase, because I use binary
mounts and unix line endings everywhere.
It compiles and does syncs with remote rsync daemons, which is my normal
usage.
Max.
See if exclude files with DOS line endings work ok for you, and also
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Uhm... rsync developers: what do you think about changing the default
modify-window in the Cygwin platform?
It seems to me that many problems people have are just because of the
granularity of timestamp.
Maybe changing the default could be the best choice. That would be
documented in the man
Dave Dykstra wrote:
it would fail if it were
talking to a release of rsync that is too old to recognize the option[...]. The surprise factor on that may be too much to make it worthwhile.
I agree. I didn't think about that.
But, given the resilience to upgrade many people have, you sure are
jw schultz wrote:
This message says it is 2 seconds aso on NTFSD actually:
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2000-July/002491.html
I don't use windows myself. I just recall that one of the
windows filesystem has timestamps in the milliseconds.
I also thought that, but that mesage
jw schultz wrote:
The 2 second timestamp resolution only applies to some
windows filesystems. I think NTFS has timestamp resolution
in the milliseconds (unlrelated to precision). It should
only become an issue when the windows filesystem is the
destination.
This message says it is 2 seconds
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We experience that as well. We use (sadly) Rsycn in Win32 environment. I
hear it's due to the Cygwin utilities.
What file sysetm, cygwni version and rsync version are you talking about?
$ echo try
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Original Message
Subject: Re: rsync windows - unix still hanging :(
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 16:10:32 -0800
From: Jim Kleckner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mike Rubel [EMAIL
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Subject: Re: rsync windows - unix still hanging :(
Date: Mon, 30 Dec 2002 17:24:47 -0800
From: Jim Kleckner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Mike Rubel [EMAIL
If you download gcc with cygwin, the compilation
procedure is exactly the same as under *nix. As for
the cygwin1.dll problems, I don't know how compatible
the different versions are, but I assume the API is
pretty fixed. I don't think you can link cygwin
statically.
In the past there are known
Dr. Poo wrote:
I was just wondering what it would take for me to do a full ghost like
restore of windows 2000?
I don't think you can bacvkup important system files while the system
is up...
and without them, you only need to backup documents, as the system
without system files such as the
files... which, damn, i should just to see if they are being synced... i
would also not be getting the registry? Do you happen to know of any other
'important system files thought probably are not being synced?
Registry is actualyl a hidden file under C:\WINNT\.. something like...
cygrunsrv -I RSYNC -d Rsync daemon -p /usr/bin/rsync.exe -a
--config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --daemon --no-detach
It is almost the same command line I suggest in the README and... it
*used* to work.
Doesn't work even in my box right now. 0_o
BTW: that's the default for rsyncd.conf
Right now it's too
encript the data in chunks, where the chunk boundaries are determined by the
That would lessen encryption security, of course.
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| That would lessen encryption security, of course.
All encryption is done in chunks, the size varies of course, usually
between 1 and 256 bits.
Of course, but even if block ciphers are usually used to encode data,
they are usually used in OFB or other feedback mode that convert them to
Is there any PGP integration into rsync available ?
No, but there's OpenSSH... quite what you're searching for =)
http://www.openssh.org/
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I thought, rsync only looks at the modification date of a file and
decides whether to backup this file or not.
By default, it does not, in fact it's REAL usefullness it's that uit
examines the content of the file to send just what is needed,
differently from other mirroring software.
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the permission from the target files to be inherited from there parent
folders that already exists on target and have several permissions
set.
You could just try to start the receiving rsync with an empty CYGWIN
environment (i.e. without CYGWIN=ntsec) so that security is not
Wernicke, Heino (CGS) wrote:
Thank you!
That helps a little. But the permissions on target machine
will not be inherited from parent folder as I wanted.
Uhm... removing ntsec shouldn't touch permissions at all...
can't just you use chmod -R 755 * after rsyncing?
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UHm, I don't know nothing about the matter but some program have the
ability to change shell's caption/title... could be cool an rsync option
to do that (easier to check the transfer from a minimized window).
Also, if the total file number also transmits the total byte size, a
gran total %
Max Bowsher wrote:
I think it might be too risky for 2.5.6 and perhaps should wait to 2.6.0.
- Dave
Yes, now the small fix has turned into a multi-source file minor redesign, lets
hold it until after 2.5.6 - at least for the standard release.
To Lapo Luchini: Maybe this could go
Brad ha scritto:
Is there a version of Rsync that works with Win2K? I wish to synchronise a
RedHat 7.2 directory and a Win2K directory.
Regards,
Brad
You can find one in Cygwin, you can install it from http://cygwin.com/
Install now.
Remember to select package rsync and, if you need it,
I am running rsync as a service on w2k successfully
using the patch from http://v.iki.fi/~vherva/cygwin-rsync/
Why using a patched 2.4.2 when you have an official 2.5.5 build ready
for you? =)
You can also install it directly frmo the cygwin's setup (
http://cygwin.com/setup.exe )
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Hi, I have a little request, which should be considered very very very
very low priority but would be useful nonetheless... in Makefile.in
there are two lines with additional space at end of line and my editor
strip it, so I must hand-edit the cygwin-specific patch in order to
create the package
D:\tmprsync -rcv *.bat \\bitserver\tmp
I hate when I sent a unfinished message by accident.
Anyway you can use UNC pathnames, just call them //server/dir...
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D:\tmprsync -rcv *.bat \\bitserver\tmp
First of all you should use unix-like paths and, to my knowledge, you can't use UNC
paths... isn't you command line creating a directory /bitserver/tmp (or maybe
/bitservertabmp) in the posix root (c:\cygwin, probably)?
building file list ... done
Rsync 2.5.2 has a data-destroying bug as described here:
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2002-January/005966.html
Lapo, does Cygwin rsync-2.5.2-1 suffer from this bug? Based on your message
I should think it would. I strongly advise against upgrading until the bug
is fixed.
It's
Holstein, Brian wrote:
Are there any available java classes that can use rsync for file
transfer. Ifso do they support connecting to an rsync-server. Any
reasons to or notto do this from within java would also be
appreciated.
Andre John Mas was trying to create a java rsync library and I
To create the install package described here you will need to obtain a copy of the
NT Server or Windows 2000 Server Resource Kit. There are many sources for these
utilities. Perhaps the easiest is to get the book and CD from any technical bookstore
or online at http://www.amazon.com for as
While I appreciate the GPL, I don't think it makes much sense in this
case. Why provide source to compile your own cygwin when it's publically
available in many places already? Likewise for rsync.
Wasn't a simple hyperlink to the original sources on your page and in a README
sufficient?
study and
understand rsync source...
C ya,
Lapo
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They basically say: there's no current support for 64 bit file lenghts,
patch are welcome as long as they don't break anything
C ya
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It would definitely be cool (and useful).
http://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=85879
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problem in cygwin port).
I've tested it and it seems to work ok (both with cygwin and linux
server and client, using ssh or not), but rsync uses and options are too
many to let me say I've tested it thoroughly.
C ya =)
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When I try to sync using ssh back to the same machine or to another machine,
the sync always hangs in the same place I've tried syncing various
directories and each directory always hangs on the same file file in each
directory...
Any clues?
It works for me (just the same environment:
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