[RndTbl] rsync update in RHEL 5 is broken

[Gilbert E. Detillieux]

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 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.

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.

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