Date: Wed, 19 Mar 2014 11:09:41 -0400 From: "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> To: krad <kraduk@gmail.com> Cc: questions@freebsd.org, "Michael W. Lucas" <mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com> Subject: Re: rsync problems Message-ID: <20140319150941.GA65449@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> In-Reply-To: <CALfReydhr%2BRP9ieCqqxt=HM8oXH86b0pc5DFJqtq4EvkU8NvGA@mail.gmail.com> References: <20140317203733.GA57962@bewilderbeast.blackhelicopters.org> <CALfReydhr%2BRP9ieCqqxt=HM8oXH86b0pc5DFJqtq4EvkU8NvGA@mail.gmail.com>
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Thanks.
I wound up trying progressively older versions of rsync back to 2.8,
and then jumped back to a very old binary, which worked. Ugly, not
recommended, but it worked.
On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 03:07:11PM +0000, krad wrote:
> from what i remember of rsync before v3, is that it used to generate
> the full file list before it did the sync. After v3 it did an
> incremental list. This resulted in much lower memory utilization.
> Therefore as you use the old version it may be worth checking any
> limits set on the daemon. It also may be worth syncing smaller parts of
> the tree if its large to reduce the memory consumption.
>
> On 17 March 2014 20:37, Michael W. Lucas <[1]mwlucas@michaelwlucas.com>
> wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I'm hoping someone can help me with an rsync issue.
> I have an old rsync client (version 2.3.1) on an effectively
> embedded
> SunOS system. Changing the client is not an option, it's part of a
> great big multimillion-dollar telephony system.
> Until last Thursday, I was successfully rsyncing to a FreeBSD
> machine
> using rsyncd. Then I rebooted it. Now rsync requests fail with:
> Mar 17 16:20:22 cdrbucket2 rsyncd[1003]: rsync error: error in rsync
> protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(226) [Receiver=3.1.0]
> Mar 17 16:21:43 cdrbucket2 rsyncd[947]: rsync error: received
> SIGINT, SIGTERM, or SIGHUP (code 20) at rsync.c(632)
> [Receiver=3.1.0]
> This is not a helpful message. Rsync is not known for helpful error
> messages, so I tried truss. Here's the notable section of the
> output:
> ...
> 1003: open("/etc/group",O_CLOEXEC,0666) = 4 (0x4)
> 1003: fstat(4,{ mode=-rw-r--r-- ,inode=4127,size=503,blksize=4096
> }) = 0 (0x0)
> 1003: lseek(4,0x0,SEEK_CUR) = 0 (0x0)
> 1003: lseek(4,0x0,SEEK_SET) = 0 (0x0)
> 1003: read(4,"# $FreeBSD: release/10.0.0/etc/g"...,4096) = 503
> (0x1f7)
> 1003: close(4) = 0 (0x0)
> 1003: chroot("/cdr/telicavoip") = 0 (0x0)
> 1003: chdir("/") = 0 (0x0)
> 1003: process exit, rval = 12
> 947: select(6,{4 5},0x0,0x0,0x0) ERR#4 'Interrupted
> system call'
> 947: SIGNAL 20 (SIGCHLD)
> 947: wait4(-1,0x0,WNOHANG,0x0) = 1003 (0x3eb)
> 947: wait4(-1,0x0,WNOHANG,0x0) ERR#10 'No child
> processes'
> 947:
> sigreturn(0x7fffffffae50,0x0,0xffffffffffffffff,0x0,0x0,0x8014001b0)
> ERR#4 'Interrupted system call'
> Any way to tell what child process it might be expecting, or where
> it's hanging up here?
> Thanks for any hints,
> ==ml
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