Re: /bin/cp: erroneous trailing slash?

On Tue, Jul 18, 2006 at 10:46:02AM +1000, David Keegel wrote:
> 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.

I'm not sure.  I'm also not sure if it would be run manually or
actually part of rsnapshot to check before each run that the
settings are "correct"..

But at the moment a simple script external to rsnapshot that checks
the behaviour of cp and rsync and advises of correct setting with a
few different released versions of rsnapshot would be very handy,e
specially for those people running it on different platforms (Linux
vs BSD).

Cheers,
Andy

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