rsync hanging at end of transfer

[Charles Sprickman]

On Mon, 1 Oct 2001, Eric Whiting wrote:

> Search the mailing list for references to Wayne's no-hang patches -- or
> get pre1 out of the cvs server and the hangs should go away.

Pre1 seems to have problems if ftpd is touching the file.  Had an error
scroll off screen that basically looked like a file had disappeared from
under rsync (deleted after the file list was built).  This killed of
rsync.  I'll try to repeat to get the full details.

Thanks,

Charles

> eric
>
>
> Charles Sprickman wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I've just started playing around with rsync (latest - 2.4.6) over ssh
> > (openssh 2.9p2) on FreeBSD to sync up home directories on a pair of web
> > servers.
> >
> > It all works great, but in trying to get a script going out of cron to
> > automate this, I'm finding that there's about a 50/50 chance that at the
> > end of the run, rsync will hang indefinetly.  I thought perhaps it was
> > something with my script, but running it by hand, I'm able to duplicate
> > the same behaviour.
> >
> > In the mailing lists I see there used to be a similar problem, but that it
> > was fixed.  It's always happening on the very last file on the list.
> >
> > Any ideas?  What other information can I provide to track this down?
> >
> > Thanks,
> >
> > Charles
> >
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