Recursive flag needs fixing 2.4.7pre1

Martin Pool mbp at valinux.com
Fri Aug 31 16:33:18 EST 2001


On 25 Aug 2001, Jie Gao <J.Gao at isu.usyd.edu.au> wrote:
> On Thu, 23 Aug 2001, Eric Whiting wrote:
> 
> > Try the -r option (or the --recurse) option instead.
> >
> > It looks like the source changed to this:
> >
> > options.c: {"recurse", 'r', POPT_ARG_NONE,   &recurse},
> >
> > But the help is still at:
> >
> > options.c:  rprintf(F," -r, --recursive   recurse into
> > directories\n");

Thanks, that's now fixed in CVS.

> Now I've got this:
> 
> /etc/local/rsync_webct_cron.sh
> 
> produced the following output:
> 
> rsync: --device: unknown option
> rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at main.c(739)

No, this was definitely always --devices.  Some getopt libraries may
have allowed you to abbreviate it, but that's not really standard.

-- 
Martin




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