BUG: logging on the wrong side with 2.5.6

[Stefan Nehlsen]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 12:34:12AM -0800, jw schultz wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 11, 2003 at 09:20:07AM +0100, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > On Mon 10 Mar 2003, Stefan Nehlsen wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I have upgraded an rsyncd Server to 2.5.6.
> > > 
> > > When I upload files using
> > > 
> > > 	rsync -rv --stats --progress /bla/content/ webmaster at webserver::bla
> > > 
> > > I noticed that the client was relative quite while lots of lines listing
> > > directory names are or deleting files show up in the rsyncd log:
> > 
> > Well, the receiving side of an rsync session is the only one that knows
> > about what files are being deleted. The sending side can show progress
> > info on files being sent, because it's actually sending them (duh :-).
> > So I don't see how the logging about what's being deleted could be
> > changed in this case.
> 
> It is the receiver that logs file transfers, sending that
> info back to the client if needed so that wouldn't be a
> problem.  The problem is that logging currently doesn't
> report what is being done so if deletes were added to the
> log (in a non -vv scenario) they would be indistinguishable
> from updates.

This status lines should show up nowhere or on the client side to tell the
user that the process is still alive. At the moment every directory handled
is listed in the logfile. (There are quite a lot directories...)

This is a new bug -- it appeared in 2.5.6.


cu, Stefan
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