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From: "Al Goodniss" <amg AT townisp DOT com>
To: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>, <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
References: <1029441424 DOT 2262 DOT ezmlm AT cygwin DOT com> <008901c24498$41ac16b0$6401a8c0 AT 1ghz> <00b501c244ab$2453e710$b86416ac AT THEODOLITE>
Subject: Re: Random Rsync 2.5.5-1 hang using Cron 3.0.1-7
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 19:51:33 -0400
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Thanks Bruce -

I tried that as well, no change. If I could determine the catalyst, I could
debug it... but I'm out of ideas.
-Al

----- Original Message -----
From: "Bruce Dobrin" <dobrin AT imageworks DOT com>
To: "Al Goodniss" <amg AT townisp DOT com>; <cygwin AT cygwin DOT com>
Sent: Thursday, August 15, 2002 18:28
Subject: Re: Random Rsync 2.5.5-1 hang using Cron 3.0.1-7


> 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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