rsync is concatenating the files together

[Werner]

Wayne,

I will try some system call tracing, but as I said in my initial post, I am
using NFS, so there shouldn't be any transport cleanliness issues.


: Re: rsync is concatenating the files together
> 
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:38:56PM -0600, Werner wrote:
> > I'm wondering perhaps if this is more a Solaris 10b69 bug than an
> > rsync bug?
> 
> I would imagine so.  I can only suggest (1) try a different transport
> (perhaps the remote shell you're using is not binary clean, and is thus
> eating the characters that would differentiate the files from one
> another in the data stream); (2) specify a much higher level of
> verbosity (so that rsync tells you what it thinks it is doing at every
> step); and/or (3) run rsync using a system-call-tracing program (which
> should help you to determine if the system calls are messing up on the
> sending or receiving side -- see http://rsync.samba.org/issues.html).
> 
> My bet is that the problem is that transport is losing data.
> 
> ..wayne..