Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (1606 mails)

[Damon Register <damonregister@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Brian K. White wrote:
> "man rsync", under --iconv=CONVERT_SPEC
>
> says nothing will happen unless there is a charset option in the daemon config 
> file
> I put "charset = cp437" into /etc/rsyncd.conf on a remote machine and restarted 
> rsyncd.
Do you have to restart?  I thought I read somewhere that it reads
the config everytime it runs

> and it says to use --iconv=local_charset[,remote_charset]
Now I am really confused.  I am looking at the rsync man page right now
from http://www.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsync.html
I don't find what you said about the charset requirement.  Am I missing
something?

> first I tried a few tests with iconv itself, not involving rsyc, just to get so 
> I know how to use iconv itself.
> After a lot of tests I'm not so sure this option is going to be very useful.
Thanks for all that work.  I am beginning to thing the same about its
usefulness.

> not very useful for filenames. I don't know what your final answer should be 
> other than forcing everything everywhere (samba and rsync) to use utf8 or 
> utf16 so they all speak the same character set.
I think that is the conclusion I reached too.  Based on what I saw from the
rsync'd file on the server, I conlcuded it was getting converted to utf8
so I tampered with the cifs mount to the samba server until I got it to
match.  Now when I use the samba connection to view the files that have
been rsync'd to the server, the characters match.  So, I may never figure
out those iconv problems but I guess it isn't so important now.

Thanks again for all your help

Damon Register
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