Re: [rdiff-backup-users] Exclude-sockets not working (Mac OS X)

[dean gaudet]

On Wed, 6 Jun 2007, Ilari Scheinin wrote:

> > > I am running rdiff-backup with the --exclude-sockets option, but I am
> > > still getting this kind of error for every socket:
> > > ListError private/var/launchd/0/sock [Errno 1] Operation not
> > > permitted: '/private/var/launchd/0/sock'
> 
> > Good catch! If the user had extended attributes support enabled (as you
> > did), rdiff-backup tried to read/set the extended attributes on the
> > socket. However, sockets don't have extended attributes on Mac OS X or
> > Linux and this attempt generates an error. I have patched this in CVS
> > and the fix will be in the next release of rdiff-backup.
> 
> I believe that the same thing is still happening with fifos. I have
> --exclude-fifos, but still get:
> 
> ListError private/var/spool/postfix/public/pickup [Errno 1] Operation not
> permitted: '/private/var/spool/postfix/public/pickup' ListError
> private/var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr [Errno 1] Operation not permitted:
> '/private/var/spool/postfix/public/qmgr'

patches welcome :)

-dean