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Rsync folks: I couldn't get the ssh tests to work in rsync 2.5.6 and it doesn't appear that they ever could have worked. There were two problems with the script I noticed: 1) The "from" directory is never populated with files to test. It looked like the "hands_setup" function from rsync.fns was designed for this, so I added it in. 2) The "F1" variable used to pick a random(?) file to rename in order to check rsync's ability to find differences was never set. This means that the following "mv" command would fail since it would try...

...le: /cvsroot/rsync/testsuite/daemon-gzip-upload.test,v retrieving revision 1.2 diff -u -r1.2 daemon-gzip-upload.test --- testsuite/daemon-gzip-upload.test 24 Dec 2002 07:25:25 -0000 1.2 +++ testsuite/daemon-gzip-upload.test 21 Jan 2003 16:06:42 -0000 @@ -21,5 +21,14 @@ export RSYNC_CONNECT_PROG hands_setup + +# If we are root, we must allow the rsyncd process (which runs under +# a different uid/gid) to write to the destination directory. Source +# directory must be chown'ed as well so that UIDs & GIDs match when +# the source & destination are compared after copying. +if [ "$testus...

...wrote: >I couldn't get the ssh tests to work in rsync 2.5.6 and it doesn't appear >that they ever could have worked. There were two problems with the script >I noticed: > >1) The "from" directory is never populated with files to test. It looked >like the "hands_setup" function from rsync.fns was designed for this, so I >added it in. > >2) The "F1" variable used to pick a random(?) file to rename in order to >check rsync's ability to find differences was never set. This means that >the following "mv" command would fai...

I was struggling tracking down a strange behaviour and could reproduce it with the testsuite. After patching it with: --- a/testsuite/compare-dest.test 2007-09-03 22:43:58.000000000 +0200 +++ b/testsuite/compare-dest.test 2014-12-30 19:28:32.060267390 +0100 @@ -18,6 +18,7 @@ # Setup the alt and chk dirs $RSYNC -av --include=text --include='*/' --exclude='*'