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Using rsync 2.6.0 on both ends, I ran rsync -v --files-from files andrew@pimlott.net: . and got an error from the remote rsync. The reason is that the remote rsync is run as rsync --server --sender -vvR --files-from=- --from0 . which conflicts with a check in options.c that rsync must have two non-option arguments when --files-from is used. I tried again with the lates...

I am concerned about the code under the comment /* Find canonic host name. */ in ssh.c. This replaces the hostname entered by the user with the cannonical name determined by getaddrinfo, causing the new name to be used henceforth. This includes connecting to the host, and finding its public key in a known_hosts file. getaddrinfo seems (on Debian GNU/Linux 2.2, GNU libc 2.1.3) to look up

Specifying a RemoteForward of 0:example.com:1234 dynamically allocates the listen port on the server, and then reports it to ... the client! Where it is practically useless. Was this someone's idea of a joke? Presumably not--there are some technical obstacles to reporting it to the remote process. I'd like to help solve that problem. The natural way to me would be to extend the syntax

...[pid 16582] _exit(255) = ? <... read resumed> "Need passphrase for /home/pimlot"..., 1024) = 48 --- SIGCHLD (Child exited) --- close(4) = 0 wait4(16582, [WIFEXITED(s) && WEXITSTATUS(s) == 255], 0, NULL) = 16582 open("/home/pimlott/.ssh/identity", O_RDONLY) = 4 fstat(4, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0600, st_size=529, ...}) = 0 getuid() = 1000 getuid() = 1000 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_END) = 529 lseek(4, 0, SEEK_SET) = 0 read(4, "SSH PRIVATE...

Hi. I'm new to IMAP, but just tried uw-imapd and then dovecot in conjuction with offlineimap. I'm using Debian package version 0.99.14-1 and have my mail in mbox format. One of the first things that annoys me about both programs is that as soon as you read a mailbox over imap, the imapd changes all "new" messages to "old". It seems to have the assumption that the

http://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=448 ------- Additional Comments From ssh-bugzilla at andrew.pimlott.net 2003-02-12 01:57 ------- I'm not sure how you mean that turning off the agent might break things, but it is obviously wrong for -i to be ignored. Why can't you simply try keys specified with -i before trying the agent? You may need to lists of keys rather than one: those explicitly r...

When using the rsync server without chroot, the --link-dest and --compare-dest options are almost useless. This is because sanitize_paths is called on the link-dest directory, stripping out leading dots and slashes. Thus, the only possiblitiy for a link-dest directory is under the target directory, which is generally not useful. There doesn't seem to be an easy fix. sanitize_paths is

I ran rsync with the --one-file-system option and observed: building file list ... readlink_stat "/home/pimlott/mnt/<hostname>" failed: Input/output error done IO error encountered - skipping file deletion Of course, this directory is a remote mount-point, and the remote host cannot be reached. I intuitively expected this error to be ignored, since the directory would not be backed up an...

The exact filename tested against include/exclude patterns is not always obvious, and the documentation is somewhat ambiguous about it. This bites particularly when using patterns starting with '/'. I just spent an hour being confused by this. Here are some suggested edits to the documentation. Current: The filenames matched against the exclude/include patterns are relative to

This isn't quite a Samba question, rather an intergrating Linux and Windowns question, but I can't think of a better place to ask it. The basic question is whether anyone has thought about writing free client code for Microsoft's WinSock Proxy service. I am interested in information about projects already begun, or in tips on how to go about writing it myself. Background

Hi! I use rsync batch mode for incremental backups. That is, I create an on-line backup with rsync, and use the --write-batch flag to additionally generate my delta, which I send off-site. To restore, I download a full backup and apply the deltas with --read-batch. This is quite a lovely setup, in principle. However, restore has give me problems. Before I detail them, let me ask: Are a lot