Possible exclude bug in 2.5.5 in rsyncd.conf
Dave Dykstra
dwd at bell-labs.com
Mon May 13 08:42:02 EST 2002
On Fri, May 10, 2002 at 05:19:47PM -0400, pyxl wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've found some behavior in 2.5.5 that is contrary to the documentation
> in the man page.
>
> Specifically, I'm running an rsync server (i.e. from inetd with
> --daemon),and in the module definition I'm specifying the line "exclude
> nosyncdir". The documentation for rsyncd.conf indicates that this is
> exactly equivalent to using "--exclude nosyncdir" on the client side.
> I'm finding, however, that if I specify it on the server side, it's
> ignored, and the dir structure of nosyncdir and below is transferred.
> If I use the client side option however, it works as expected, that
> being the nosyncdir dir structure is not transferred.
>
> I've tried the variations *nosyncdir*, *nosyncdir/*, nosyncdir,
> nosyncdir/* and nosyncdir* - none of them work on the server side.
>
> Hopefully someone can shine some light on this, either to confirm that
> it's a bug or correct my syntax if it's off.
Do you happen to be sending to the daemon? It only works for receiving
files from a daemon. Last week I changed the rsyncd.conf man page as
follows:
This is equivalent to the client specifying these patterns with the
--exclude option, except that the exclude list is not passed to the
client and thus only applies on the server and also only applies when
receiving files from a server and not when sending files to it.
- Dave Dykstra
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