Possible exclude bug in 2.5.5 in rsyncd.conf

[pyxl]

Dave Dykstra wrote:

>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
>
>
Yes, that's what I'm doing.  I ended up figuring that out the hard way 
and posted a few more messages to the list about my findings.  Thanks 
for updating the docs, that'll avoid confusion for lots of folks in the 
future.

Scott