error receiving files from protocol 29 server

[Paul Slootman]

On Tue 23 Sep 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Tue, 2008-09-23 at 12:58 +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> > In debian bug #493559 (http://bugs.debian.org/493559) the problem is
> > that when requesting a file from an older version rsync, the remote
> > server gives an error:
> > 
> > $ rsync rsync://rsync.blackholes.us/zones/countries/countries.rbl /tmp
> > rsync: on remote machine: -: unknown option
> > rsync error: requested action not supported (code 4) at clientserver.c(517)
> > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (4 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(632) [receiver=3.0.4]
> 
> This appears to be a result of adding the -e server option and
> incompletely removing it for pre-protocol-30 servers.  This patch should
> fix it:

Thanks! With your patch I can't reproduce the problem any more.


Paul Slootman