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From: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>
To: "Al Goodniss" <amg AT townisp DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
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Subject: Re: Random Rsync 2.5.5-1 hang using Cron 3.0.1-7
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:28:55 -0700
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I had similar problems,  that were fixed by a complete cygwin reinstall.
Still don't know what caused it though....


----- Original Message -----
From: "Al Goodniss" <amg AT townisp DOT com>
To: <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 1:13 PM
Subject: Random Rsync 2.5.5-1 hang using Cron 3.0.1-7


> Hi,
>
> I'm running Cygwin 1.3.12 (and a few previous) and I keep encountering an
> Rsync hang. I have a small rsync script (see below) that does backups of
my
> HD to an external HD. On occasion, usually when I have an IDE open, rsync
> will hang when run as a cron job.
>
> I did some searching through the mailing list archives and found there
were
> a few patches that went into the Rsync 2.4.x releases for this style of
> issue, but nothing relating to cron, and no issues since the patch went
into
> rsync 2.5.x. Nothing in the documentation seems to indicate any issues or
> requirements for what I'm doing (it doesn't look like I need an rsync
server
> to do a local copy).
>
> The problem seems to only occur when the job is run through Cron, running
it
> via the shell will work fine. Once hung there will be two Rsync processes
> (see excerpt below) and the sh and tcsh spawned by Cron. All but one of
> these will be kill -9'able. The other can be closed via the windows task
> manager.
>
> The log that the process generates shows no errors (exceprt below) and
shows
> what seems to be a complete run of rsync just before output is given.
>
> I'm at a loss at what else this could be. I've tried the script in tcsh
and
> bash, both in the script and as specified in cron.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> -Al
>
> ---------------------------------excerpts
> follow ----------------------------------
>
> // -------------------------- DLL Version
> 1.3.12-cygwin-1-3-12-1
>
> // -------------------------- Tools Versions
> cron                3.0.1-7
> rsync               2.5.5-1
>
>
> //------------------------------- Log excerpt
> $ tail logs/Thursday_AM_backup.log
> Projects/carspecs/SQL Work/NSCYV_1-2.EXE
> Projects/carspecs/SQL Work/SSCJ_CS2002_TextFiles_UTF8.exe
> Projects/carspecs/SQL Work/SSCUSA_CS2002_TEXTFILES.EXE
> Projects/carspecs/SQL Work/SSCUSA_CS2002_TextFiles_UTF8.exe
> Projects/carspecs/SQL Work/SbF - SQLs.txt is uptodate
> Projects/carspecs/Sources/MultiCountryTestApp/Form1.frm is uptodate
> Projects/carspecs/Sources/MultiCountryTestApp/MSSCCPRJ.SCC is uptodate
> Projects/carspecs/Sources/MultiCountryTestApp/Project1.vbp is uptodate
> Projects/carspecs/Sources/MultiCountryTestApp/Project1.vbw is uptodate
> total: matches=0  tag_hits=0  false_alarms=0 data=133019599
>
> //------------------------------ Script
> #!/usr/bin/tcsh
>
> # Parameters
> set backupdirs = "$HOME /d/Projects"
> set logFile = "$HOME/logs/`date "+%A_%p_backup.log"`"
> set excludes = "$HOME/backups/excludes.rsync"
>
> # Start time
> date > $logFile
>
> # Do the backups
> foreach dir ($backupdirs)
>         rsync -av -v --delete --exclude-from=$excludes $dir
> /g/backups/`date '+%
> A'` >>& $logFile
> end
>
> # End Time
> date >> $logFile
>
>
> // --------------------------------- Processes once hang has occured
> $ ps
>       PID    PPID    PGID     WINPID  TTY  UID    STIME COMMAND
>       208       1     208        208  con 1004 07:30:05 /usr/bin/tcsh
>      1640    2776    1640       3656    ? 1004 11:45:01 /usr/bin/sh
>      3644    1640    1640       3644    ? 1004 11:45:01 /usr/bin/tcsh
>      3964    3644    1640       3372    ? 1004 11:45:07 /usr/bin/rsync
>      2668    3964    1640       2668    ? 1004 11:45:07 /usr/bin/rsync
>      1164     208    1164       2368  con 1004 12:50:31 /usr/bin/ps
> $
>
>
> // ------------------------------ Crontab -l
> # DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
> # (/tmp/crontab.580 installed on Wed Aug  7 16:41:33 2002)
> # (Cron version -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.6 2001/09/19 17:09:55 corinna Exp $)
> # Defaults
> MAILTO=al DOT goodniss AT jato DOT com
>
> #Testing
> #37 16 * * * $HOME/backups/nightlyBackups
>
> # Backups
> 45 11,15 * * * $HOME/backups/nightlyBackups
>
>
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