Package: rsync Version: 3.1.3-6 Severity: normal Dear Maintainer,
* What led up to the situation? Normal rsync local system directory copying/archiving using the '--log-file' option * What exactly did you do (or not do) that was effective (or ineffective)? 1. Executing "rsync -a --verbose --log-file=~/xx/mylog ~/xxxx ~/xx" Resulted in: rsync: failed to open log-file ~/xx/mylog: No such file or directory (2) Ignoring "log file" setting. sending incremental file list xxxx/ xxxx/20211230171244.mkv ...snip normal output... xxxx/xx/20220212123456-mask2.xcf sent 2,687,537 bytes received 222 bytes 5,375,518.00 bytes/sec total size is 2,686,183 speedup is 1.00 Note the error output and 'Ignoring "log file" setting.' line when the --logfile option contained a tilde: '--log-file=~/xx/mylog' Also note that the source and destination directories do contain the tilde (~). No log file was produced anywhere on the local system. (The directory archive was successful.) 2. Executing "rsync -a --verbose --log-file=xx/mylog ~/xxxx ~/xx" (relative directory) or with '--log-file=/home/myid/xx/mylog' (fully qualified path) resulted in the expected logging operation. If the tilde is honoured in the arguments, shouldn't it also be honoured in the options? Thanx. -- System Information: Distributor ID: Devuan Description: Devuan GNU/Linux 3 (beowulf) Release: 3 Codename: beowulf Architecture: x86_64 Kernel: Linux 4.19.0-14-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores) Locale: LANG=en_US.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8), LANGUAGE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash Init: sysvinit (via /sbin/init) LSM: AppArmor: enabled Versions of packages rsync depends on: ii base-files 10.3+devuan3.5 ii init-system-helpers 1.56+nmu1+devuan3 ii libacl1 2.2.53-4 ii libattr1 1:2.4.48-4 ii libc6 2.28-10 ii libpopt0 1.16-12 ii lsb-base 10.2019051400 rsync recommends no packages. Versions of packages rsync suggests: ii openssh-client 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 ii openssh-server 1:7.9p1-10+deb10u2 -- no debconf information