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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>
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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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