rsync and Perl programming

[Tom Allen]

You didn't escape your @localhost, for one.  Try $rsync_cmd = 'blah blah
blah'; instead.


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Tom Allen                       Email: tallen at 10east.com
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10East Corp                     FAX: 904-384-1038

On Wed, 5 May 2004, Jim Salter wrote:

> Hi everybody -
>
> I'm trying to write a Perl wrapper for some rsync tasks that need doing.
>   Problem is, there's some sort of odd interaction going on between Perl
> and the daemon mode communication for the rsync client, and I'm at my
> wit's end in trying to figure it out.
>
> Here's the Perl script:
>
> #####################################################
> #####################################################
> #!/usr/bin/perl
> $rsync_cmd = "/usr/local/bin/rsync -a --progress
> --password-file=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.passwd
> ph34r at localhost::samba/rsynctestfiles /usr/share/smbshare/rsynctestfiles";
>
> $pid = open(PH, "$rsync_cmd 2>&1 |");     # with an openpipe
> while (<PH>) {                            # plus a read
>          print $_;
> }
>
> print "finished\n";
>
>
> #####################################################
> #####################################################
>
>
>
> When I run the script, here is the output I get:
>
>
> #####################################################
> #####################################################
>
> building file list ...
> link_stat
> "/usr/share/smbshare/Work/rsync-backup-v2/ph34r/rsynctestfiles" failed:
> No such file or directory
> 0 files to consider
>
> wrote 25 bytes  read 20 bytes  90.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(632)
> finished
>
>
> #####################################################
> #####################################################
>
> Now the odd thing is, I can run the rsync command in $rsync_cmd just
> fine from the shell - it rsyncs the directories in question without
> problem.  And if I set $rsync_cmd to something using a local path (no
> daemon-mode communication) for both source and target, it will run as
> expected in my Perl script too.
>
> I'm only having the odd problem shown when using daemon mode in my Perl
> wrapper.  The system being used is running FreeBSD 5.1, and I have the
> problem when running either rsync 2.6.0 from FreeBSD's ports tree or
> 2.6.2 downloaded straight from the rsync site and compiled.
>
> Any ideas?  (Help me, help me obi-Wayne...)
>
> Jim Salter
> JRS Systems
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