Mail Archives: cygwin/2004/03/29/17:00:56
Thank you Igor!
Both of those work perfectly.
As usual, you hit it dead on.
Bruce D.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Igor Pechtchanski" <pechtcha AT cs DOT nyu DOT edu>
To: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>
Cc: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2004 1:39 PM
Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9
> On Mon, 29 Mar 2004, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
>
> > On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >
> > >Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9
> > >From: Igor Pechtchanski <pechtcha at cs dot nyu dot edu>
> > >To: Bruce Dobrin <dobrin at imageworks dot com>
> > >Cc: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> > >Date: Fri, 26 Mar 2004 23:33:05 -0500 (EST)
> > >Subject: Re: rsh no longer works with rsync as of 1.5.9
> > >References: <00ec01c41387$02143d10$4d1f1cac AT THEODOLITE>
> > >Reply-to: cygwin at cygwin dot com
> >
> > >On Fri, 26 Mar 2004, Bruce Dobrin wrote:
> >
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> I have been using rsync via rsh (-e "rsh") for our general
distributions
> > >> for a for all of our windows and Linux machines ( 2000 of them) .
on
> > >> Upgrading from cygwin1.5.5 to 1.5.9, Rsync could no longer use rsh
to
> > >> rsync.
> > >>
> > >> I get : "rsh : unknown option -- server"
> > >> I down graded the rsync2.6.0 from the cyg1.5.9 install to the 2.5.6
version
> > >> from the cyg1.5.5 version and got the same problem. I restored the
rsync to
> > >> 2.6.0 and copied the rsh.exe from the inetutils-1.3.2-25 from the
cyg1.5.5
> > >> install and rsync started working again.
> > >>
> > >> Is there a known bug or known workaround for using the most recent
version
> > >> of rsh ( from 1.3.2-26)?
> > >> thanks.
> > >> Bruce Dobrin
> > >>
> > >> example: rsync -rluzv -e "rsh" --timeout=100 --size-only
matilda:/c/dist_and_install_files/dist/sysadm_general/ /c/
> > >>
> > >> rsh : unknown option -- server
> > ?>
> > >WAG: check text/binary settings on the connection (e.g., does $CYGWIN
> > >contain "nobinmode"?). Also check with ssh.
> > >Igor
> >
> > Igor,
> > Thank you for answering.
> > Using ssh works fine ( well, it works as well as rsync has ever worked
> > anyway ;-) ). My $CYGWIN is a fairly standard : binmode tty ntsec
> >
> > ssh is not really an option for us though;our facility is locked down
hard
> > so internally we don't use ssh at all but depend on rsh.. I'd like to
keep
> > our rsh current though, but to keep it working I have had to replace
the
> > newer rsh with the older one... eventually I'm afraid this will bite me
in
> > the butt. should I talk to the rsync people? it looks like rsync is
> > passing a switch "--server" that is being picked up incorrectly by the
newer
> > rsh and not the older one... ( if I type: BASH > rsh --server
> > I get the same response: "rsh: unknown option -- server" ),
> >
> > Thanks for your continuing help
> > Bruce---
>
> Oh. This may have something to do with the argument permutation in the
> "getopt" call, which was introduced at some point. Try (a) setting the
> POSIXLY_CORRECT environment variable before calling rsync, or (b) giving
> the '-e "rsh --"' option instead of '-e "rsh"' (don't know if rsync will
> allow this, though).
> Igor
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