On Thu, 18 Jan 2024, Paul Slootman via rsync wrote:
On Thu 18 Jan 2024, Roger Price via rsync wrote:
I get the messages
sending incremental file list
ERROR: daemon refused to receive file "rprice/demo.dvi"
I understand that the remote daemon has refused file demo.dvi because I
specifically requested that dvi files not be transferred. I choose that
myself in a regular configuration file. So shouldn't it be a WARNING rather
than an ERROR? I would expect to see
In this case you're in control of both ends of the transfer, so you know
that *.dvi files won't be transferred.
However, it could be that this rsync command is being run by someone who
expects rsync to do what they asked it to do, i.e. transfer the entire
contents of .../rprice to the remote server, and the client rsync can't
fulfil that request; hence the error.
If you don't want *.dvi files to be transferred, then you should add
--exclude '*.dvi'
to the invocation.
I accept that if the message has to cover all the cases, including hardware
misconfigurations and errors, then ERROR is necessary.
But it would have been nice to have a specific message for exclude = ...
effect in remote rsyncd.conf even if the user has no direct access.
Roger
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