Specifying No Recursion Explicitly

2005-01-22 Thread David Cary Hart
I am a Newbie Nitwit. Here's the problem session: rsync -tvv rsync.dsbl.org::dsbl/rbldns-fresh-list.dsbl.org opening tcp connection to rsync.dsbl.org port 873 rsync: The server is configured to refuse --recursive (-r) rsync error: requested action not supported (co

Re: Specifying No Recursion Explicitly

2005-01-22 Thread John Van Essen
On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, David Cary Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a Newbie Nitwit. Welcome! > Here's the problem session: > > rsync -tvv rsync.dsbl.org::dsbl/rbldns-fresh-list.dsbl.org > opening tcp connection to rsync.dsbl.org port 873 > rsync: The server is configu

Re: Specifying No Recursion Explicitly

2005-01-22 Thread David Cary Hart
On Sat, 2005-01-22 at 11:08 -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, David Cary Hart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I am a Newbie Nitwit. > That certainly is not a helpful error message, is it? > > To save the file by the same name in the working directory, append a " .": > > rsync

Re: Specifying No Recursion Explicitly

2005-01-22 Thread Wayne Davison
Just for completeness, let me mention why this error occurs: > rsync: The server is configured to refuse --recursive (-r) ... even when no -r was specified: > rsync -tvv rsync.dsbl.org::dsbl/rbldns-fresh-list.dsbl.org The reason is that a sad kluge was put into rsync long ago to make list-mode