Re: /bin/cp: erroneous trailing slash?

On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 02:57:45PM +0000, Andy Smith wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 17, 2006 at 03:16:52PM +0100, David Cantrell wrote:
> > GNU cp recently changed its behaviour with regard to trailing slashes.
> > The solution is to either comment out cmd_cp in your config file, or to
> > upgrade to rsnapshot 1.2.9.
> 
> Is it possible that we could have a script that checks the behaviours
> of various utilities and advises the correct/optimal rsnapshot.conf
> settings?  I am getting quite confused over what should be set,
> now...

Would you see this script being part of rsnapshot itself, or something
added to the utils directory in the rsnapshot package, or a stand-alone
script?

Obviously if was in rsnapshot it would not directly help people running
rsnapshot 1.2.9 or earlier versions.

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