Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 179212
rsync won't talk to older rsync servers
Last modified: 2008-08-02 19:40:33 EDT
From Bugzilla Helper: User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X; en) AppleWebKit/417.9 (KHTML, like Gecko) Safari/417.8 Description of problem: When connecting to older rsync daemons, specifically while using at least the -C option, the following error is displayed and rsync exits: filter rules are too modern for remote rsync. rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at exclude.c(1119) Searching around, I found the following via Google which reportedly fixes the issue: http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-April/012317.html Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): rsync-2.6.4-3 How reproducible: Always Steps to Reproduce: 1. have a rsync daemon running which is a version older than 2.6.4 2. run "rsync -CPcvuzb <some files> user@remote::name/" Additional info:
This report targets the FC3 or FC4 products, which have now been EOL'd. Could you please check that it still applies to a current Fedora release, and either update the target product or close it ? Thanks.
This bug is so old and addressed in public by the rsync maintainer. I assume therefore it is fixed in current releases. Please reopen a bug if this is not true.