rsync - Apr 2008 - problems with skipping server-excluded files with rsync 2.6.6

Hi,

I have a setup as follows:
rsync config file (/var/run/ifxclm-rsyncd.conf):
uid =           root
gid =           root
hosts allow =   zgrlvr1a.zgr.insel.de
log file =      /var/log/ifxclm-rsyncd
pid file =      /var/run/ifxclm-rsyncd.pid
log format =    %h %o %f %l %b
transfer logging = true
use chroot =    true
read only =     false
write only =    true

[drb]
comment = DrB Environment
path = /
include from = /var/run/ifxclm-rsync-incl-drb
exclude = *


The include file (/var/run/ifxclm-rsync-incl-drb) looks like:
- .ssh
- .kde
- .history
- .bash_history
- .LogGetan
- .viminfo
- .vimscripts
- *.swp
- /project/drb/src
- /project/drb/logbuch
- /project/drb/.Log*
/project
/project/drb
/project/drb/**
/project/tform
/project/tform/**
/usr
/usr/lib
/usr/lib/tfmac
/usr/lib/tfmac/**

The rsync server is called as follows:
/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --port=874 --config=/var/run/ifxclm-rsyncd.conf

The client is called as follows:
/usr/bin/rsync -aH --port=874 --delete -b --suffix=.ifxclm -v
--include-from=/var/run/ifxclm-rsync-incl-drb --exclude '*' /
zgrlvr1b::drb

The include file on the client is the same as on the server.
This worked fine for me at least up to rsync version 2.6.2.
Now I'm trying to use this on SuSE SLES 10 which has rsync version 2.6.6
and the server rejects all files with the error message
"skipping server-excluded file".
If I ommit the exclude in the server config, it works.
But for security reasons I want to use server side excludes and are unable
to find out why it isn't working any longer as it used before.

Hans-Dieter Doll

On Tue, Apr 15, 2008 at 11:45:35PM +0200, Hans-Dieter.Doll
wrote:
> This worked fine for me at least up to rsync version 2.6.2.
> Now I'm trying to use this on SuSE SLES 10 which has rsync version
2.6.6
> and the server rejects all files with the error message
> "skipping server-excluded file".
Starting with 2.6.3 rsync began to use the include/exclude rules to
limit what could be uploaded to the server as well as what could be
downloaded.  It would seem that this upload limit allows the "." dir
at the root of the transfer to be excluded (which it should not do,
but has done since 2.6.3).  So, your exclusion of "*" is causing the
starting directory to be dropped, and nothing can be transferred.

An easy fix is to add "include = /." to that module in your
rsyncd.conf
file, and uploads should start to work again.

..wayne..