Sorry to waste your time - I will stop using rsync

[Peter Kennard]

I agree often if the kernel crashes, though the kernel should be well 
protected enough to only crash the application process, and not damage 
itself, often the kernel flaw is stimulated by an errant or out of range 
value in it's input which woudl cause the user process to crash if the 
kernel did not.

That said, to clarify to them.  Did the whole server machine crash ie: the 
kernel, or just the rsync process or login process it was invoked from?

PK

At 06:29 PM 9/8/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>Jw,
>Respectfully,
>My experience is to shy away from any piece of software which the
>developers feel is inviolate
>
>Although often the hardware and kernel certainly could be at fault it is
>wrong to assume they are, and such a response usually indicates that I am
>wasting my time reporting this problem.
>
>Sincerely,
>Trevor
>http://TrevorMarshall.com
>
> >
> >If it isn't hardware report the kernel crashes to
> >linux-kernel at vger.kernel.org with ksymoops et al.
> >See kernel-newbies.org (url from memory) for instructions.
> >
> >When a user app crashes the kernel it is the kernel's fault.
> >
> >
> >>
> >> >If running rsync crashes your (non-MS) server you have a
> >> >problem with the server, not rsync.  On a linux system
> >> >application caused system crashes are either bad hardware or
> >> >kernel bugs.
> >> >
> >> >Unless you have tweaked out SuSE i would say you have a
> >> >hardware problem.  Rsync will stress some parts of the
> >> >system so that is probably why you haven't had crashes
> >> >before.
> >> >
> >> >Look in the system logs.  The pipe errors seem more likely
> >> >to be cause by bad memory than disk.
> >> >
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