Comment by wtetzner

21 hours ago

> The one place in my usage where it doesn't match Samba rsync is with the following:

> openrsync --rsync-path=openrsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

This appears to match "normal" `rsync` behavior as well. I think you need a trailing slash after `services` to sync only the contents.

EDIT: actually my "normal" rsync is openrsync on macOS...

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krelas  17 hours ago

This switch happened in macOS 15.4, it was pretty easy to miss.

  • sudoshred  9 hours ago

    sounds like a compliment to the implementation

    • wpm  37 minutes ago

      Or more likely that prior to 15.4, macOS was using an ancient version of rsync because Apple wants to avoid the GPL 3.0. rsync went GPL 3.0 in 2007.

dcrazy  12 hours ago

Nonetheless, this matches vanilla rsync.

  • Panino  1 hour ago

    No, it doesn't.

    I think some people may not be reading closely. On Unix, "/etc/services" is a file, not a directory:

      $ file /etc/services                                                                                                                         
  /etc/services: ASCII text

    Here are two OpenBSD 7.9 endpoints running Samba rsync:

    rsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

    The above command creates a mirror of the local file /etc/services in a remote file called /tmp/services. The outcome is exactly the same as if I had run "scp /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services"

      client$ sha256 -q /etc/services                                                                                                                    
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

  server$ sha256 -q /tmp/services                                                                                                          
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

    openrsync --rsync-path=openrsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

    The above command creates a mirror of the local file /etc/services in a remote file called /tmp/services/services. The outcome is NOT the same as if I had run "scp /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services"

    Please note that "/tmp/services" and "/tmp/services/services" are different.

      client$ sha256 -q /etc/services                                                                
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

  server$ sha256 -q /tmp/services  
  sha256: /tmp/services: read error: Is a directory
  server$ sha256 -q /tmp/services/services                                                                                                 
  469d28e72ed0e0994d31b555cc1bed7bc95a23fd1beeb30062affb64db0dd44a

    Here's an OpenBSD 7.9 client and Ubuntu server both running Samba rsync:

    rsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

    The above command creates a mirror of the local file /etc/services in a remote file called /tmp/services. The outcome is exactly the same as if I had run "scp /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services"

    If you disagree, please state what operating systems you're using and copy/paste the output of the following commands on each side:

      uname -a
  rsync -V
  openrsync -V

    I get

      $ rsync -V
  rsync  version 3.4.3  protocol version 32
  (snipped)

  $ openrsync -V
  openrsync 0.1 (protocol version 27)

    Then please run the commands I ran above, in particular

    openrsync --rsync-path=openrsync -av -e ssh /etc/services example.com:/tmp/services

    And then type "file /tmp/services" on the remote server.