rsync and missing files?

Dave Dykstra dwd at bell-labs.com
Thu Apr 25 10:21:01 EST 2002


On Wed, Apr 17, 2002 at 10:57:56AM -0500, John Madden wrote:
> send_files failed to open //home/user/Maildir/new/_dwG.NeZv8.blah: No such
> file or directory
> rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578)

On Tue, Apr 23, 2002 at 11:50:41AM -0701, Jos Backus wrote:
> > >> I'd be quite happy with rsync just throwing a warning and going to the
> > >> next file, or at least there being an option to turn on such behavior.
> > >
> > > Isn't that the current behaviour?
> > 
> > No, not at all.  As per my original post, rsync will complain about the list
> > of files it can't open and then just exit.  At least, that's what it appears
> > to be doing!
> 
> Hm, perhaps that can be fixed.

The code is currently doing a "continue" after that error, not an exit, so
it should be continuing on to do the rest of the files before it exits.
However, an error message is printed at exit time.

- Dave Dykstra




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