rsync - May 2002 - Enhancement suggestion: improve the host not found error message

When I feed a bogus hostname to rsync, it reports "Undefined 
error". It would be useful if instead it would say something more 
informative, like "Host not found".


						Thanks for rsync!


						Chris Pepper
PS-Please cc: me on any replies -- I'm not a subscriber.
>[imobile:~/Sites/cvs/apache-clone] pepper% rsync -CHaz --delete 
>--stats --progress g45::cvs-apache ~/Sites/cvs/apache-clone/
>rsync: failed to connect to g45: Undefined error: 0
>rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97)
>[imobile:~/Sites/cvs/apache-clone] pepper% rsync --version
>rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
>Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
><http://rsync.samba.org/>
>Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
>               no IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
>
>rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
>are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
>General Public Licence for details.
-- 
Chris Pepper:               <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>
Rockefeller University:        <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>

What operating system are you talking about?  Solaris 2.7 reports
    rsync: getaddrinfo: g45 873: no address associated with hostname.
and Linux kernel 2.4.18 reports
    rsync: getaddrinfo: g45 873: Name or service not known

- Dave Dykstra

On Sat, May 04, 2002 at 12:06:42AM -0400, Chris Pepper
wrote:
> 	When I feed a bogus hostname to rsync, it reports "Undefined 
> error". It would be useful if instead it would say something more 
> informative, like "Host not found".
> 
> 
> 						Thanks for rsync!
> 
> 
> 						Chris Pepper
> PS-Please cc: me on any replies -- I'm not a subscriber.
> 
> >[imobile:~/Sites/cvs/apache-clone] pepper% rsync -CHaz --delete 
> >--stats --progress g45::cvs-apache ~/Sites/cvs/apache-clone/
> >rsync: failed to connect to g45: Undefined error: 0
> >rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97)
> >[imobile:~/Sites/cvs/apache-clone] pepper% rsync --version
> >rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
> >Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
> ><http://rsync.samba.org/>
> >Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks,
batchfiles,
> >              no IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
> >
> >rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and
you
> >are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
> >General Public Licence for details.
> 
> -- 
> Chris Pepper:               <http://www.reppep.com/~pepper/>
> Rockefeller University:        <http://www.rockefeller.edu/>
> 
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