rsync - Oct 2004 - [Bug 1924] unable to rsync between a PC with cygwin and a unix machine using rsh

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1924


wayned@samba.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
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             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WONTFIX




------- Additional Comments From wayned@samba.org  2004-10-13 09:09 -------
This is a bug in cygwin's rsh program that they should fix.  When they
changed
their getopt library to one that does command-line reordering, the same problem
showed up for ssh, and I managed to talk them into fixing it.  You should
request that the same change be made to cygwin's rsh.

Work arounds are:

- Specify --rsh="rsh --" option to rsync (this should work if they
fixed the bug
in how the -- option is parsed that was present back when ssh was similarly
broken).

- Export POSIXLY_CORRECT in your environment.  This will prevent all commands
from reordering their command-line arguments and affects other program aspects,
so this is probably not a good way to go.

- Create a shell script that exports POSIXLY_CORRECT and then execs the real rsh
with the supplied command-line args. Rename the rsh program and name the new
shell script "rsh".  This fixes rsh for everyone on your system.

Also, please do not put large amounts of patch data in the comments --
that's
what attachments are for.

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------- Additional Comments From wayned@samba.org  2004-10-13 09:23 -------
I just tried running rsh on the latest cygwin, and it is not reordering the
command-line arguments, so it appears that the cygwin folks have already fixed
this problem.  Note also that rsh doesn't accept the "--"
argument, so that
suggestion from my previous comment doesn't work.

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Hi All,

I have the following rsync command:
/usr/bin/rsync -av /data/html/interactives/delta_interactive.swf
/mnt/cf/data/html/interactives/delta_interactive.swf

The directory /mnt/cf/ exists but data/html/interactives does not exist.  I
want this directory to be created when the file is attempted to be rsynced.

Can this be done.

Cheers
Jason

On Thu, Oct 21, 2004 at 01:57:39PM +0800, Jason Potter
wrote:
> The directory /mnt/cf/ exists but data/html/interactives does not exist.  I
> want this directory to be created when the file is attempted to be rsynced.
/usr/bin/rsync -avR /data/html/interactives/delta_interactive.swf /mnt/cf

That will do what you want (note the -R).

..wayne..