no such file or directory - but hey, the files are there!

Matt McCutchen hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com
Tue Dec 26 03:44:46 GMT 2006


On 12/25/06, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo at wpkg.org> wrote:
> [...]
> rsync: pop_dir "/cygdrive/c/WINDOWS/system32/u:" (in uDrive) failed: No
> such file or directory (2)
> rsync error: errors selecting input/output files, dirs (code 3) at
> flist.c(1281) [sender=2.6.9]
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (445 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(453)
> [receiver=2.6.9]
>
>
> Note that it should be successful, as the directory exists above in the
> example 1, and did copy fine?

The gist is that rsync cannot handle paths like "u:".  On the first
command, rsync got lucky and worked anyway because the root of the
transfer happened to be the root of the module.  As Wayne said, you
should specify "/cygdrive/u" instead of "u:" in the module
configuration.

Matt


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