Mailing-List: contact cygwin-help@cygwin.com; run by ezmlm List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: cygwin-owner@cygwin.com Mail-Followup-To: cygwin@cygwin.com Delivered-To: mailing list cygwin@cygwin.com Message-Id: <200311132306.hADN6637014762@viper.techchamps.com> From: "Brendon Baumgartner" To: Subject: RE: using rsync in a sceduled script Date: Thu, 13 Nov 2003 15:06:07 -0800 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2800.1165 > -----Original Message----- > From: Brendon Baumgartner [mailto:brendon@brendon.com] > Sent: Thursday, November 13, 2003 1:36 PM > To: 'cygwin@cygwin.com' > Subject: using rsync in a sceduled script > > I have a very odd problem. > > I'm using rsync 2.5.6 in a bash script that is scheduled to run using > windows XP scheduler. > > Rsync works perfectly everytime from the command line, but sometimes after > the rsync operation completes when it is run using a script/scheduler, I > get this error and rsync sits running (hung) till I manually kill it. > > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /tmp/rsync- > 2.5.6/main.c(1045) > > I logged stdout and stderr from the script, and here is what it looks > like: > receiving file list ... done > wrote 97 bytes read 1569 bytes 175.37 bytes/sec > total size is 1441861 speedup is 865.46 > rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /tmp/rsync- > 2.5.6/main.c(1045) > > Is it a bug? Is it me? I've fought this for awhile now. I can't figure it out. I copied the script to a linux machine and it works flawlessly, same rsync server. The command that is the root of all evil (my problem, in cygwin) : /usr/bin/rsync -qaz --partial --delete --timeout=4 \ rsync://server.xyz.com/o/test/ /cygdrive/d/remote/backup.current/o/ -Brendon -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/