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On Fri, 14 Apr 2006 23:18:45 +1000
Vincent Ho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> Just a tip for anyone else...
>
> rsync 2.6.7 has changed the meaning of the --devices option to only
> mean device nodes[1], not FIFOs/sockets (a new option --specials
> instructs rsync to copy them). This caused filelistReceive failures
> for us on a client machine running Debian testing, which has 2.6.7.
> For others it seems to have caused segfaults when their backup hits a
> FIFO/socket[2].
>
> The -D option to rsync does what we want though, it means --devices on
> older rsyncs and --devices --specials on 2.6.7+. I've changed our
> $Conf{RsyncArgs} to use -D rather than --devices and things have
> worked since, and suggest we do the same to the shipped version of
> the config file.
Awesome! Clients with rsync 2.6.7-1 work again.
Thanks, Vincent!
Jacob
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