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authorben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2002-05-22 00:13:18 +0000
committerben <ben@2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109>2002-05-22 00:13:18 +0000
commit791f3b1a9d293b385ba5aabff096826a5b59c314 (patch)
tree404aac7c58546603f48d2cbc93a4f2b2cfb3ea2d
parente43ae344c0b6c8848a8dc6ad39a991136d46e78d (diff)
downloadrdiff-backup-791f3b1a9d293b385ba5aabff096826a5b59c314.tar.gz
Final changes for 0.7.5, added --change-source-perm comment
git-svn-id: http://svn.savannah.nongnu.org/svn/rdiff-backup/trunk@98 2b77aa54-bcbc-44c9-a7ec-4f6cf2b41109
-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG11
-rw-r--r--rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.14
2 files changed, 12 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
index db6608f..7588b88 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
+++ b/rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-New in v0.7.5 (2002/06/01)
+New in v0.7.5 (2002/05/21)
--------------------------
-Fixed particularly bad resuming bug.
+Fixed resuming bug.
After a bit of empirical testing, increased Globals.conn_bufsize and
enabled ssh compression by default (and also added
@@ -14,6 +14,13 @@ remote.
Fixed --include error reporting bug reported by Ben Edwards.
+Small change so 'door' files and other unknown file types will be
+ignored.
+
+Fixed bug noticed by Dean Gaudet where, unless the
+--change-source-perms option is specified, rdiff-backup wouldn't even
+attempt to open files lacking ownership permissions.
+
New in v0.7.4 (2002/05/11)
--------------------------
diff --git a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
index 097ec73..c22f662 100644
--- a/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
+++ b/rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1
@@ -49,7 +49,9 @@ Force backup mode even if first argument appears to be an increment file.
If this option is set, rdiff-backup will try to change the mode of any
unreadable files or unreadable/unexecutable directories in the source
directory so it can back them up. It will then restore their original
-permissions and mtimes afterwards.
+permissions and mtimes afterwards. This option should generally not
+be used if rdiff-backup has root access to the source directory, as
+root can access files regardless of their permissions.
.TP
.BI "--chars-to-quote " chars
If this option is set, any characters in