[RndTbl] rsync update in RHEL 5 is broken

[Gilles Detillieux]

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 at 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.

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Gilles R. Detillieux              E-mail: <grdetil at scrc.umanitoba.ca>
Spinal Cord Research Centre       WWW:    http://www.scrc.umanitoba.ca/
Dept. Physiology, U. of Manitoba  Winnipeg, MB  R3E 0J9  (Canada)