psync Panther and sym links

[Bill Metzinger]

I can't find any references to my particular problem. I guess I'm 
special. I hope someone can shed a little light.

I've used psync for years on OSX. I call it from a shell script during 
my daily cron.
Everything worked great until Panther.
When psync runs it copies symbolic links like normal.
When I rerun it, psync thinks those symbolic links need to be copied 
again.

Here's a simple way to duplicate my problem on all my Panther machines

Bill:/ bill$ mkdir thing1 thing2 thing3

Bill:/ bill$ ln -s thing3 thing1/thing3

Bill:/ bill$ psync thing1 thing2
Scanning Destination Directory thing2 ...
         0:.
1 items found.
Scanning Source Item thing1 ...
         0:.
2 items found.
       0 items to delete,
       0 items unchanged,
       1 items to copy.
copying items ...
+l thing1/thing3
fixing directory attributes ...
00755,bill,admin thing2
Bill:/ bill$ psync thing1 thing2
Scanning Destination Directory thing2 ...
         0:.
2 items found.
Scanning Source Item thing1 ...
         0:.
2 items found.
       0 items to delete,
       0 items unchanged,
       1 items to copy.
copying items ...
+l thing1/thing3
fixing directory attributes ...
The psync was reinstalled from the author's instructions with the 
Panther patch.
Thank you for your help.
Bill



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