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Subject: RE: using rsync in a sceduled script
Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2003 09:27:10 -0800
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From: "Bakken, Luke" <Luke.Bakken@getronics.com>
To: "Brendon Baumgartner" <brendon@brendon.com>, <cygwin@cygwin.com>
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> > 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/

rsync doesn't work perfectly with cygwin in some situations. Search the
archives for more info. I installed the latest dll snapshot and it
seemed to resolve some of the hanging issues I've seen.

Luke

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