rsync exit 0 before transfer complete

[Wayne Davison]

On Sat, Dec 17, 2005 at 12:06:26PM -0700, Donna Livingstone wrote:
> wrote 25 bytes  read 20 bytes  30.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 0  speedup is 0.00
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(620)

This trailing error is output from the _cleanup_exit() routine right
before rsync exits with the "code" value (23 in this case), so I fail to
see how rsync could be exiting with a 0 value.  Version 2.5.7 is 2 years
old now, but I did try running it, and in an identical failure-scenario
(even using rsh instead of my normal ssh) it exited with the right exit
code.

I'd suggest checking to ensure that you don't have an rsync script,
alias, or function that is losing the return code.  (Perhaps you should
change the "rsync" in your script to "/usr/bin/rsync".)

..wayne..