Behavior when lchown is not present

2005-01-18 Thread Green, Paul
Title: Behavior when lchown is not present I have a question about the recent modification to move the handling of HAVE_LCHOWN from rsync.h to syscalls.c, http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync-cvs/2005-January/002769.html The original code was #ifndef HAVE_LCHOWN. The new code is #ifdef

RE: Rsync 2.5.6 installation failed

2003-02-10 Thread Green, Paul
Can you compile anything at all with your C compiler? The output suggests that cc is totally broken on your machine. Get it to work before running configure again. PG configure:1687: checking for C compiler default output configure:1690: ccconftest.c 5 cc: 1501-245 Warning: Hard ulimit

RE: Precompiled rsync 2.5.5 for SPARC Solaris 8 64bit

2003-02-04 Thread Green, Paul
You can install gcc in any directory; you don't need root access to build and install gcc (or any other gnu package) from source code. Just use the --prefix control argument on configure. For example, I have a test hierarchy and say: configure --prefix=/h/paulg/prefix The binaries go

RE: rsync - what can it do?

2003-02-04 Thread Green, Paul
bob parker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asks: I've downloaded a 700meg iso by ftp using a steam powered dial up connection. It took a week and naturally many resumes. Murphy's Law did not take a holiday of course so the md5sum of the downloaded iso does not match the md5sum of the one at the

RE: proposal to fork the list (users/developers)

2003-01-30 Thread Green, Paul
I tend to be someone who automatically looks for trends, and the nice thing about having just one list is that it lets me know where people are having problems. Judging by the number of questions we get, one of the biggest challenges for inexperienced rsync users is knowing why a particular file

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
Martin Pool [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On 28 Jan 2003, Green, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think splitting the branches will also let us be a little more experimental in the development branch, at least until we get near the next release phase, because we'll always have

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: On Wed, Jan 29, 2003 at 03:24:57PM +1100, Martin Pool wrote: On 28 Jan 2003, Green, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think splitting the branches will also let us be a little more experimental in the development branch, at least until we get

RE: rsync 2.5.6 fails on Tru64 v5.0 with rsync://hostname/

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
Laurent CREPET [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: I've just compiled 2.5.6 release on Tru64 V5.0A (configure detects alphaev67-dec-osf5.0, gcc release is a 3.1.1). rsync fails using rsync://hostname/ syntax. lct@goliath(32) [rsync-2.5.6]$ ./rsync rsync://stitch/ rsync: getaddrinfo: stitch

RE: Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
jw schultz [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: [general discussion of forthcoming patches removed] All well and good. But the question before this thread is are the changes big and disruptive enough to make a second branch for the event of a security or other critical bug. Agreed.

RE: rsync-2.5.6 build on Red Hat 8.0 fails

2003-01-29 Thread Green, Paul
Horst von Brand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: The packaging/lsb/rsync.spec file is broken as shipped: It has a Sept month (rpmbuild here takes only 3-letter month names), and RH gzips the manpages, so the %files list can't find them. I also added doc/README-SGML and doc/rsync.sgml to the

Proposal that we now create two branches - 2_5 and head

2003-01-28 Thread Green, Paul
I'd like to suggest that this is now a great time to create two separate cvs branches for the rsync product. One, which I'll tentatively call 2_5, would hold the version of the code that has been released to the world as 2.5.6. The other, which I'll tentatively call head, would hold the

RE: RE : small problem that I'm having...

2003-01-27 Thread Green, Paul
nal Message-From: Patrick Amirian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 3:55 PMTo: 'Green, Paul'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject: RE : small problem that I'm having... This is what I get with the vvv option local_version=24 remote_version=24 receiving file

RE: [PATCH] open O_TEXT and O_BINARY for cygwin/windows

2003-01-26 Thread Green, Paul
Ville Herva [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Of course, whether O_TEXT is defined or not does not necessarily imply the availability of t, but I can't think of better alternative. Stratus VOS implements O_TEXT and O_BINARY but does not recognize t. We have the options defined in ANS C and

RE: send_files failed to open filename ...

2003-01-24 Thread Green, Paul
Do-Risika RAFIEFERANTSIARONJY wrote: but I don't really understand this last part, especially the *double buffering* ? I think JW means that you should first make a local copy of the directory hierarchy you want to back up to another system, and then run rsync on the copy. If you use

RE: how to send only the diff ?

2003-01-24 Thread Green, Paul
But this is what rsync does by default. Or am I missing something? That version is well out of date. Please upgrade to a current version. PG -Original Message-From: Patrick Amirian [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Thursday, January 23, 2003 3:46 PMTo: [EMAIL PROTECTED]Subject:

RE: Finished storage compression patch for rsync

2003-01-18 Thread Green, Paul
Harald, You might consider using zlib instead of gzip; same algorithm, same author, but you can access the compression code via a subroutine interface. You would not have to spawn another process to run gzip, and you would not be dependent upon the user having gzip installed. It is not covered

RE: working on a 2.5.6pre1 release

2003-01-10 Thread Green, Paul
Dave Dykstra [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: 3. The Stratus VOS port is failing all 3 daemon tests in code that is used just for testing, saying it can't create the test socket. I don't know if there's a corresponding problem in the corresponding non-test code. The socketpair_tcp

Long-pending patch for Stratus VOS build

2003-01-10 Thread Green, Paul
The following patch still applies cleanly to the current cvs copy of rsync. I apply it each night after I grab rsync from the build farm. Without it, I don't get far at all. The purpose of the patch is to add executable extension handling, which we need, and to clean up a few POSIX things and

RE: Long-pending patch for Stratus VOS build

2003-01-10 Thread Green, Paul
Wayne Davison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] wrote: Here are my comments on the changes: ? I have a question about the portability of the u_FOO - uFOO_t changes. The former is the BSD syntax for the unsigned FOO typedefs, and the latter is what, POSIX? The changes work on Linux, at least.

RE: am I missing something, or are permissions always preserved?

2003-01-01 Thread Green, Paul
Ben [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] I'm relatively new to rsync, but it seems to me that if there's an option to perserve permissions and you don't set it, then rsync shouldn't do anything with permissions. Sounds good, but recall how POSIX / Unix system calls work. To create a file, you have to

RE: RSync on Netware

2002-12-11 Thread Green, Paul
Well, Novell has an anonymous ftp server. (ftp.novell.com). The site is a little sparse on human-readable information, but the only email address listed in the top-level README file is for [EMAIL PROTECTED] I suggest to give her or him a holler. PG -Original Message- From: Lee

RE: Suggestion: rsync and direct IO

2002-12-05 Thread Green, Paul
From: David Sisson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] asks: [...] If we could write directly to the disk using direct-io (or from for that matter) we could avoid polluting the operating system's buffer cache before we're ready to use the new data. Obviously this feature isn't tied to Direct-IO, so

RE: 2.5.5 build ignores $CPPFLAGS

2002-11-13 Thread Green, Paul
This patch is incomplete and should not be used. I think that my patch, submitted Sept 9th and resubmitted Oct 10th has the complete set of changes to Makefile.in to add CPPFLAGS (plus a few more cleanups). Thanks. PG -- Paul Green, Senior Technical Consultant, Stratus Technologies. Voice: +1

RE: Rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(926)

2002-11-05 Thread Green, Paul
Marco A. Mateos [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote (as corrected): I don't use rsync on my server because all time what i use this message appears: zopedocs/GuideToDTML/roman-number.gif is uptodate wrote 60 bytes read 2552145 bytes 6603.38 bytes/sec total size is 2211107296 speedup is 866.35

FW: rsync-cvs mail list archiving broken??

2002-11-05 Thread Green, Paul
To: Green, Paul Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: rsync-cvs mail list archiving broken?? On 10 Oct 2002, Green, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: No new CVS messages have appeared on the rsync-cvs archives since August 30th. This seems rather odd-- perhaps a daemon stopped working? If there has truly

Rsync development status

2002-10-30 Thread Green, Paul
Is rsync under active maintenance and development? I ask because I have twice submitted a small set of patches to this mailing list and have never received any indication that the proposed patches were either applied or rejected. I notice that the rsync-cvs mailing archive shows that no patches

RE: Rsync help

2002-10-29 Thread Green, Paul
Title: Rsync help What version of rsync? What operating system? What version of the OS? What is the phase of the moon? C'mon, give us more clues. :-) PG -Original Message-From: Walgamotte, David [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 12:38 PMTo: '[EMAIL

building problem with rsync up to 2.5.5

2002-10-08 Thread Green, Paul
Try using the version of popt included with rsync. You did not specify the arguments you gave to configure, but you are apparently using the libpopt from your system libraries, which seems to be missing the necessary manifest constants. I know that using configure --with-included-popt works for

rsync now available for Stratus VOS

2002-10-08 Thread Green, Paul
I have just uploaded a port of rsync version 2.5.5 to the VOS anonymous ftp site. rsync is a fast, incremental file transfer program. It is used by a number of open-source software projects, including Perl and Samba, to efficiently distribute changes to many users. By using a number of new