rsync - Aug 2001 - --delete option not working

I am trying to use rsync to move backup file from a cople of Oracle
servers to another machine where they will be backed up to tape.  The
command is run from a script launched by cron and looks like:

/usr/local/bin/rsync --recursive --delete --verbose $BACKUP_DIR/* \
euphrates::tigris/logarch/.

Rsync is running from inetd on euphrates which has the following
defined in /etc/rsyncd.conf:

[tigris]
   uid = rsync
   path = /t/tigris
   comment = tigris oracle backup
   read only = false
   hosts allow = tigris, tigris.totalflood.com

Both machines are running Solaris 8 and rsync 2.4.6.

The problem is the --delete is not working.  After the transfer is
complete, I can do an 'ls' on the two directories and the files not on
the source machine are still on the destination.  Needles to say this
is filling up the target disk very quickly.

I searched the archives and couldn't find any similar problem.  Hard
to beleive I am the first to encounter it.

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On 08/08/2001 Stephen Carville wrote
>I am trying to use rsync to move backup file from a cople of Oracle
>servers to another machine where they will be backed up to tape.
<snip>
>The problem is the --delete is not working.  After the transfer is
>complete, I can do an 'ls' on the two directories and the files not
on
>the source machine are still on the destination.  Needles to say this
>is filling up the target disk very quickly.
<snip>

I am fairly new to rsync but have found writing to rsync in daemon mode to
be unreliable.  I changed to rsync over ssh (at the suggestion of someone
on this list) and all my problems instantly disappeared.  Well perhaps not
all my problems,  but the rsync related ones did.

regards
Steven