Bug 1599 - copy-unsafe-links cann't take affect
Summary: copy-unsafe-links cann't take affect
Status: CLOSED INVALID
Alias: None
Product: rsync
Classification: Unclassified
Component: core (show other bugs)
Version: 2.6.2
Hardware: x86 Linux
: P3 normal (vote)
Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Wayne Davison
QA Contact: Rsync QA Contact
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Reported: 2004-08-10 21:25 UTC by faris xiao
Modified: 2005-03-16 16:48 UTC (History)
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Description faris xiao 2004-08-10 21:25:21 UTC 
The --copy-unsafe-links  option cann't take affect.

when I run :
[root@beijingdb mms]#/usr/local/rsync/bin/rsync  --copy-unsafe-links  -vzrtopgn  
 --progress  db@192.168.0.2::db /mnt/sdb7/77dbmysqldata --password-file=/usr/
local/rsync/etc/dbpass

I get the following error at tail of output :

wrote 1035 bytes  read 35847 bytes  24588.00 bytes/sec
total size is 6755588056  speedup is 183167.62
rsync warning: some files vanished before they could be transfered (code 24) at 
main.c(1048)

In my server log,I get :
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] rsync on db from db@beijingdb (192.168.0.12)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/phpinfo.php" (in db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog.MYI" (in db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog.MYD" (in db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog_20040420.frm" (in 
db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog_20040420.MYD" (in 
db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog_20040420.MYI" (in 
db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog_20040621.frm" (in 
db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog_20040621.MYD" (in 
db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] file has vanished: "/mms/Downmmslog_20040621.MYI" (in 
db)
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] wrote 35847 bytes  read 1035 bytes  total size 
6755588056
2004/08/11 12:19:23 [2912] rsync warning: 

/mms/Downmmslog.MYI is a symbolic  links  that point  outside  the  copied  
tree.
why i get "some files vanished before they could be transfered (code 24) at 
main.c(410)"?
Is this a bug of copy-unsafe-links?
Comment 1 Wayne Davison 2004-08-10 23:05:17 UTC 
You must be running the daemon with chroot enabled, making it impossible to
follow a symlink outside the module's root path.  Your only choices are to
disable chroot (see the rsyncd.conf man page) or to make the symlinks relative
links to content inside the chrooted area.

The CVS version of rsync outputs a better error than the misleading "file has
vanished" one that 2.6.2 outputs, so it would at least have told you that the
symlink was invalid.