Subject: Re: 1.5.25: rsync hangs
From: "Steven Hartland" <[email-masked]>
To: "Dat Head" <[email-masked]>
Cc: <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 2 Aug 2009 19:52:35 +0100
List-Id: <cygwin.cygwin.com>

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dat Head"

> On Sun, Aug 2, 2009 at 5:57 AM, Steven Hartland wrote:
>> We've always found rsync on cygwin unreliable when used with ssh, so much so
>> that I wouldn't advise it to anyone. If you can do away with ssh and use
>> daemon mode then you'll likely have more joy. Alternatively try sfu's version which
>> apart from the 2GB file limit works well.
> 
> there's no ssh involved in my scenario
> 
> i wonder if 1.7 has this same problem,
> i'm using i guess a much older version of 1.5 or maybe even earlier on my
> other computer and do not have the issue (that release contains rsync 2.x vs
> the 3.x in this one causing issues)

So your using rsync in daemon mode then? As otherwise it will
default to using ssh unless you have a very old version using
rsh, so you may be using it without realising?

    Regards
    Steve

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