--exclude-from works but "exclude from" in rsyncd.conf doesn't ?

1Ahosting.us chris at 1ahosting.us
Sat May 10 07:18:33 EST 2003


so is that no yes maybe 

> 
> 
> --On Friday, May 09, 2003 13:16:14 -0700 Wayne Davison 
<wayned at samba.org> 
> wrote:
> 
> > (just not the effect you're expecting).  As the man page states, the
> > option is not the equivalent of specifying the --exclude-from 
option on
> > the command-line, and its main purpose (at the moment) is to limit 
what
> > can be downloaded from a server -- i.e. it makes certain files 
invisible
> > on the server, but the client side doesn't know about the 
exclusions at
> > all.
> 
> Except it doesn't always, because the server doesn't canonicalize 
pathnames 
> when a client requests a file via rsync::
> 
> *sigh*
> 
> Basically, excludes on the server are next to useless.
> 
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> Carson
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