STS is initialized as 3; and is only set to zero if rsync returns zero. > On Feb 28, 2018, at 8:59 PM, Mark Kirkwood <mark.kirkwood@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Hi > > On 01/03/18 14:10, Rui DeSousa wrote: >> I’ve tested this and it seems that there is a still a bug in rsync (rsync version 3.1.2 protocol version 31). I used a 1GB archive filesytem to allow for an out of space test case. Not sure of the actual cause as it seems to work a few times; however, it then fails leaving a truncated file and returning a success code. >> >> >> Archive Script critical code: >> >> OUTPUT=$(rsync -ac $XLOGFILE $ARCH_SERVER:$ARCH_DIR/$WALFILE) >> if [ $? == 0 ]; then >> STS=0 >> echo "Success: $WALFILE" >> /tmp/waltest.log >> else >> echo "Failed: $WALFILE" >> /tmp/waltest.log >> fi >> >> exit $STS >> >> >> > > Looking at the above snippet, $STS is not properly initialized in the failure section of the code...so you might be getting false 0 returns when rsync is actually setting some other value. > > regards > > Mark