Specifying No Recursion Explicitly

[John Van Essen]

On Sat, 22 Jan 2005, David Cary Hart <rsync at TQMcube.com> wrote:
> I am a Newbie Nitwit.

Welcome!

> Here's the problem session:
> 
>         rsync -tvv rsync.dsbl.org::dsbl/rbldns-fresh-list.dsbl.org
>         opening tcp connection to rsync.dsbl.org port 873
>         rsync: The server is configured to refuse --recursive (-r)
>         rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at
>         clientserver.c(473)
>         rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4 bytes received so far)
>         [receiver]
>         rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
>         io.c(359)
>         
> What am I doing incorrectly?

The "requested action not supported" apparently refers to the absence
of a target to receive the file.

That certainly is not a helpful error message, is it?

To save the file by the same name in the working directory, append a " .":

  rsync -tv rsync.dsbl.org::dsbl/rbldns-fresh-list.dsbl.org .

Hope that helps.  Worked for me.
-- 
        John Van Essen  Univ of MN Alumnus  <vanes002 at umn.edu>