After upgrading to net-misc/rsync-2.6.8, rsync started to ignore the 'quiet' argument All output from all rsyncs are being displayed/emailed now. To reproduce this behaviour... $ mkdir test1 $ mkdir test2 $ touch test1/test.txt $ rsync -auv -q test1 test2 test1/ test1/test.txt Here is a post discussing this problem as well... http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-458760-highlight-rsync+quiet.html Today net-misc/rsync-2.6.8-r1 came down. The problem persists with this build as well. --quiet -q definition from man -q, --quiet This option decreases the amount of information you are given during the transfer, notably suppressing information messages from the remote server. This flag is useful when invoking rsync from cron Here is my emerge --info Portage 2.0.54-r2 (default-linux/x86/2005.0, gcc-3.4.5, glibc-2.3.6-r3, 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686) ================================================================= System uname: 2.6.16-gentoo-r3 i686 Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 2.40GHz Gentoo Base System version 1.6.14 distcc 2.18.3 i686-pc-linux-gnu (protocols 1 and 2) (default port 3632) [disabled] dev-lang/python: 2.3.5-r2, 2.4.2 dev-python/pycrypto: [Not Present] dev-util/ccache: [Not Present] dev-util/confcache: [Not Present] sys-apps/sandbox: 1.2.17 sys-devel/autoconf: 2.13, 2.59-r7 sys-devel/automake: 1.4_p6, 1.5, 1.6.3, 1.7.9-r1, 1.8.5-r3, 1.9.6-r1 sys-devel/binutils: 2.16.1 sys-devel/libtool: 1.5.22 virtual/os-headers: 2.4.19, 2.6.11-r2 ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" AUTOCLEAN="yes" CBUILD="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" CONFIG_PROTECT="/etc /usr/kde/2/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/env /usr/kde/3.3/share/config /usr/kde/3.3/shutdown /usr/kde/3.4/env /usr/kde/3.4/share/config /usr/kde/3.4/shutdown /usr/kde/3/share/config /usr/lib/X11/xkb /usr/share/config /var/qmail/control" CONFIG_PROTECT_MASK="/etc/eselect/compiler /etc/gconf /etc/terminfo /etc/env.d" CXXFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -funroll-loops -fprefetch-loop-arrays -pipe" DISTDIR="/usr/portage/distfiles" FEATURES="autoconfig distlocks sandbox sfperms strict" GENTOO_MIRRORS="http://distfiles.gentoo.org http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/gentoo" MAKEOPTS="-j1" PKGDIR="/usr/portage/packages" PORTAGE_TMPDIR="/var/tmp" PORTDIR="/usr/portage" PORTDIR_OVERLAY="/usr/local/portage" SYNC="rsync://172.16.0.2/gentoo-portage" USE="x86 X acl alsa apache2 apm arts audiofile avi bitmap-fonts bzip2 cdr cli crypt cups curl dri eds emboss encode esd ethereal exif expat fam ffmpeg foomaticdb fortran freetds gd gdbm gif glut gmp gnome gpm gstreamer gtk gtk2 hardenedphp idn imagemagick imlib innodb isdnlog jpeg kde lcms ldap libg++ libwww mad mhash mikmod mng motif mp3 mpeg mysql ncurses nls ogg oggvorbis opengl openssh oss pam pcre pdflib perl php png pppd pwdb python quicktime readline reflection ruby samba sdl session slang spl sqlite ssl tcpd tiff truetype truetype-fonts type1-fonts udev usb vorbis xine xml xml2 xmms xorg xv xvid zlib userland_GNU kernel_linux elibc_glibc" Unset: ASFLAGS, CTARGET, INSTALL_MASK, LANG, LC_ALL, LDFLAGS, LINGUAS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_EXTRA_OPTS, PORTAGE_RSYNC_OPTS
fixed in 2.6.8-r2
