Just a heads-up for anyone running RHEL 5 or a clone (CentOS or SL). The latest update to rsync, version 3.0.6-4.el5, may break any backup scripts you have that rely on the remotehost:remotedir notation to access systems via ssh. Red Hat's package for this includes a patch that breaks this unless you prepend the username@ part before the host name. I had that nasty surprise this morning after yesterday's update. Your options are to alter your backup scripts to use the user@host:dir notation, or to exclude this update until they release a fixed version. If you've already installed the update, "yum downgrade rsync" seemed to do the trick to revert to the 2.6.8-3.1 version on my SL 5.6 systems. -- Gilles R. Detillieux E-mail: <grdetil@scrc.umanitoba.ca> Spinal Cord Research Centre WWW: http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/ Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba Winnipeg, MB R3E 0J9 (Canada)
On 2011-07-27 15:08, Gilles Detillieux wrote:
Just a heads-up for anyone running RHEL 5 or a clone (CentOS or SL). The latest update to rsync, version 3.0.6-4.el5, may break any backup scripts you have that rely on the remotehost:remotedir notation to access systems via ssh. Red Hat's package for this includes a patch that breaks this unless you prepend the username@ part before the host name. I had that nasty surprise this morning after yesterday's update.
Your options are to alter your backup scripts to use the user@host:dir notation, or to exclude this update until they release a fixed version. If you've already installed the update, "yum downgrade rsync" seemed to do the trick to revert to the 2.6.8-3.1 version on my SL 5.6 systems.
That particular update hasn't shown up for CentOS 5.6 yet - at least not on the mirrors. (I guess this is a case where CentOS's update lag works in our favour.) Thanks for the warning. -- Gilbert E. Detillieux E-mail: <gedetil@muug.mb.ca> Manitoba UNIX User Group Web: http://www.muug.mb.ca/ PO Box 130 St-Boniface Phone: (204)474-8161 Winnipeg MB CANADA R2H 3B4 Fax: (204)474-7609
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