From: Paul Mison Date: 10:06 on 22 Apr 2004 Subject: rsync Usually I like rsync. Today, though, I was copying a half-gig file to a remote machine, and I neglected to check the permissions. Unfortunately, so did rsync. Well, that's not quite true. It checked them. AFTER SPENDING FIVE MINUTES COPYING THE FILE. The error message was verbose and useless too. Hateful thing.
From: Nicholas Clark Date: 11:29 on 22 Apr 2005 Subject: rsync Generally most excellent software, but this is hateful: $ rsync -ve ssh plum:tmp/other ~/tmp/other skipping non-regular file "/Users/nick/tmp/other" wrote 16 bytes read 40 bytes 37.33 bytes/sec total size is 4 speedup is 0.07 $ ls -l ~/tmp/other ls: /Users/nick/tmp/other: No such file or directory $ touch ~/tmp/other $ rsync -ve ssh plum:tmp/other ~/tmp/other skipping non-regular file "/Users/nick/tmp/other" wrote 16 bytes read 40 bytes 37.33 bytes/sec total size is 4 speedup is 0.07 $ ls -l ~/tmp/other -rw-r--r-- 1 nick nick 0 22 Apr 11:22 /Users/nick/tmp/other W.T.F. ???? Finally, over on plum, I find the cause: $ ls -l ~/tmp/other lrwxr-xr-x 1 nick nick 4 Apr 22 11:22 /home/nick/tmp/other -> file Argh. Report the right fucking file name. Go on. You know it would make sense. (About to send a bug report. People who just spout about bugs somewhere random and expect the developers to learn of them are hateful. But they're not software...) Nicholas Clark
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