From 791f3b1a9d293b385ba5aabff096826a5b59c314 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: ben Date: Wed, 22 May 2002 00:13:18 +0000 Subject: 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 --- rdiff-backup/CHANGELOG | 11 +++++++++-- rdiff-backup/rdiff-backup.1 | 4 +++- 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 -- cgit v1.2.1