Commit d310a212 authored by Andrew Tridgell's avatar Andrew Tridgell

added a bit in the man page about the clean shell error

parent ca6c93f8
......@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ void setup_protocol(int f_out,int f_in)
if (remote_version < MIN_PROTOCOL_VERSION ||
remote_version > MAX_PROTOCOL_VERSION) {
rprintf(FERROR,"protocol version mismatch - is your shell clean?\n");
rprintf(FERROR,"(see the rsync man page for an explanation)\n");
exit_cleanup(1);
}
......
......@@ -315,6 +315,11 @@ option all symbolic links are skipped.
dit(bf(-L, --copy-links)) This tells rsync to treat symbolic links just
like ordinary files.
dit(bf(--safe-links)) This tells rsync to ignore any symbolic links
which point outside the destination tree. All absolute symlinks are
also ignored. Using this option in conjunction with --relative may
give unexpecetd results.
dit(bf(-H, --hard-links)) This tells rsync to recreate hard links on
the remote system to be the same as the local system. Without this
option hard links are treated like regular files.
......@@ -357,6 +362,10 @@ instead it will just report the actions it would have taken.
dit(bf(-S, --sparse)) Try to handle sparse files efficiently so they take
up less space on the destination.
NOTE: Don't use this option when the destination is a Solaris "tmpfs"
filesystem. It doesn't seem to handle seeks over null regions
correctly and ends up corrupting the files.
dit(bf(-x, --one-file-system)) This tells rsync not to cross filesystem
boundaries when recursing. This is useful for transferring the
contents of only one filesystem.
......@@ -585,6 +594,29 @@ itemize(
directories and C source files.
)
manpagesection(DIAGNOSTICS)
rsync occasinally produces error messages that may seem a little
cryptic. The one that seems to cause the most confusion is "protocol
version mismatch - is your shell clean?".
This message is usually caused by your startup scripts or remote shell
facility producing unwanted garbage on the stream that rsync is using
for its transport. The way ot diagnose this problem is to run your
remote shell like this:
verb(
rsh remotehost /bin/true > out.dat
)
then look at out.dat. If everything is working correctly then out.dat
should be a zero length file. You you are getting the above error from
rsync then you will probably find that out.dat contains some text or
data. Look at the contents and try to work out what is producing
it. The most common cause is incorrectly configued shell startup
scripts (such as .cshrc or .profile) that contain output statements
for non-interactive logins.
manpagesection(ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES)
startdit()
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