Displaying 20 results from an estimated 7000 matches similar to: "patch against manpage"
2003 Mar 12
1
patch: typo's and gcc warnings
Two patches:
one to correct the spelling of permissions (in comments, but such typos
disturb me as well), and
one to cast inode and dev to unsigned long before comparing, to prevent
gcc giving a warning "comparison between signed and unsigned".
Paul Slootman
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diff -ru orig/rsync-2.5.6/generator.c rsync-2.5.6/generator.c
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2007 Aug 01
2
--append option description in manpage confusing
[ see http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=426191 ]
The text in the description of the --append option may lead one to
believe that files that are shorter on the receiving side won't be
updated, due to the following text:
...
Only files on the receiving side that are shorter than the
corresponding file on the sending side (as well as new files)
are sent. ...
IMHO
2007 Apr 12
2
error on --copy-dirlinks shortform in manpage
Hi,
A minor bug in the manpage was noticed by a Debian user...
(Please keep the 418923-forwarded@bugs.debian.org in the Cc list in
replies.)
diff -u -r1.399 rsync.yo
--- rsync.yo 23 Jan 2007 15:34:43 -0000 1.399
+++ rsync.yo 12 Apr 2007 19:30:17 -0000
@@ -724,7 +724,7 @@
also ignored. Using this option in conjunction with bf(--relative) may
give unexpected results.
-dit(bf(-K,
2008 Mar 03
1
--append option description in manpage typo
I just noticed, too late )-:
--append
This causes rsync to update a file by appending data onto the
end of the file, which presumes that the data that already
exists on the receiving side is identical with the start of the
file on the sending side. Any files that are the same size or
shorter on the
2003 May 15
2
single quotes in the manpage
In the manpage, all occurrences of a single quote (or apostrophe) are
preceded by a backslash. This means that these get turned into acute
accents by groff; here's the relevant part of the groff manpage:
\' The acute accent ; same as \(aa. Unescaped: apostrophe, right
quotation mark, single quote (ASCII 0x27).
I think all these backslashes should be removed, as the
2005 Apr 25
2
How about a --min-size option, next to --max-size
There's a rather old bug report in Debian's bug tracking system
(see http://bugs.debian.org/27126) about wanting to be able to specify
the maximum file size, as well as the minimum file size. Here's the
text:
Sometimes, it's useful to specify a file size range one is
interested in.
For example, I'd like to keep an up-to-date mirror of Debian, but I
currently
2004 Sep 05
1
minor typo fix for 2.6.3 pre 1
I'm sure that someone's gonna complain that parsing the output is messed
up by this patch, but then they should have told about the typo
themselves :-)
--- log.c.orig 2004-08-17 10:25:57.000000000 +0200
+++ log.c 2004-09-05 16:28:42.000000000 +0200
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
{ RERR_WAITCHILD , "some error returned by waitpid()" },
{ RERR_MALLOC , "error allocating core
2005 Apr 26
1
Bug#306368: filter rules are too modern for remote rsync (which is 2.5.6)
I received the following bug report for the Debian rsync package today.
I wouldn't have expected 2.6.4 to refuse to talk to even a 2.6.2 in this
way...
Perhaps Wayne could comment?
Paul Slootman
On Tue 26 Apr 2005, Alexey Feldgendler wrote:
>
> Rsync fails to push filters to the the remote host if the remote rsync
> is older than the Debian's. I've tried to connect to a
2003 May 21
2
patch to avoid race condition in rsync 2.5.6
There is a small race condition in rsync 2.5.6. When the transfer is
finished, and the file is moved into place, there is a short time
period where the new file is in place with the wrong permissions.
When using rsync on a busy email server to replace the exim config
file with a new file, exim will produce several complaints in that
short period. This small patch fixes the problem, by making
2008 Apr 07
1
newbie: rsync 2.6.x problems Cygwin client --> RedHat server
On Mon 07 Apr 2008, S.A. Birl wrote:
>
> Server is running rsync 2.6.1 on RH
> Client is running rsync 2.6.3 on Cygwin (Win2003)
>
> When I connect client to server, I get kicked out after SSH
> authentication. I can manually ssh into the server with no problems.
Is the server running an rsync daemon? If so, why the ssh?
Paul Slootman
2017 Mar 03
2
How do you exclude a directory that is a symlink?
The directory I'm trying to copy from is: /home/blah/dir
The symlink is /home/blah/dir/unwanted_symlinked_dir
On Fri, Mar 3, 2017 at 8:10 AM, Paul Slootman <paul+rsync at wurtel.net> wrote:
> On Fri 03 Mar 2017, Steve Dondley wrote:
>
> > I'm trying to rsync a directory from a server to my local machine that
> has
> > a symbolic link to a directory I don't
2003 Dec 04
2
rsync security advisory
rsync 2.5.6 security advisory
-----------------------------
December 4th 2003
Background
----------
The rsync team has received evidence that a vulnerability in rsync was
recently used in combination with a Linux kernel vulnerability to
compromise the security of a public rsync server. While the forensic
evidence we have is incomplete, we have pieced together the most
likely way that this
2003 Dec 04
2
rsync security advisory
rsync 2.5.6 security advisory
-----------------------------
December 4th 2003
Background
----------
The rsync team has received evidence that a vulnerability in rsync was
recently used in combination with a Linux kernel vulnerability to
compromise the security of a public rsync server. While the forensic
evidence we have is incomplete, we have pieced together the most
likely way that this
2005 May 19
2
Bug#305932: rsync on a directory transfers the files of this directory
Hi,
I got the following report from a Debian user, about --files-from
transferring the contents of a dir (i.e. including the files in it)
specified in the input, even thugh the files aren't listed in the input.
This happens only when the dir name ends with a slash. I asked him to
cook up a script to reproduce this (as it wasn't quite clear to me at
first what happened exactly).
Any
2003 May 16
1
--csum-length ?!
>From the manpage:
--csum-length=LENGTH
By default the primary checksum used in rsync is a very strong
16 byte MD4 checksum. In most cases you will find that a trun-
cated version of this checksum is quite efficient, and this will
decrease the size of the checksum data sent over the link, mak-
ing things faster.
You can choose the
2005 Apr 10
1
trailing slash on module name
A trailing slash on a module name has no effect, which is on the one
hand logical as it's not a directory name; on the other hand it's not
consistent either (as experienced by a user).
I suggest at least adding some comment to the manpage where trailing
slashes are discussed. Perhaps also mention it in the rsyncd.conf
manpage, where perhaps it may be noticed sooner.
If I find the time
2005 Apr 22
1
"address" option in rsyncd.conf
I wanted to restrict rsync to listen only on one IP address on a
multi-homed system. I put an "address aa.bb.cc.dd" option in the
(single) module definition, as the manpage shows that "address" is a
module option, not a global one. However, lsof showed that rsync had
bound to * instead of the specified IP address.
Moving the "address" line to the global part did the
2006 Dec 08
1
--no- usage
The manpage states:
You may turn off one or more implied options by prefixing the option
name with "no-". Not all options may be prefixed with a "no-": only
options that are implied by other options (e.g. --no-D, --no-perms)
or have different defaults in various circumstances (e.g.
--no-whole-file, --no-blocking-io, --no-dirs). You may specify
either
2019 Nov 14
2
hardlinking missing files from src to a dest: didn't work way I thought it would.
Am 14.11.19 um 10:54 schrieb Paul Slootman via rsync:
> You need to specify the source directory as the link-dest directory.
Hi, I tried it also because it's an old question which has never worked
for me. Instead it creates copies and not hard links:
pierre at in94:~/tmp$ ls -li a b
a:
insgesamt 8
257315 -rw-r--r-- 1 pierre pierre 4 Nov 14 10:53 1
257316 -rw-r--r-- 1 pierre pierre 6 Nov
2004 Nov 23
4
patch for replacing non-printable chars in filenames
There's a bug reported in Debian about the tty being screwed up by wierd
filenames, see http://bugs.debian.org/bug=242300
On the one hand, find will also do this. On the other hand, ls will
replace such chars with a question mark. Upon inspection, it appears to
be fairly simple to also do this in rsync (in the rwrite() function).
Here's a patch. Opinions? Perhaps don't do it