Hi,
>>"G" == G John Lapeyre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
G> How do I get a mirror program to either copy symlinks and the files
G> and directories they point to. or follow the sym link and simply
G> copy what it points to
G> I have tried every mirroring program I can find.
I note you have not tried the grand-dady, amusing called
mirror. Or wget -r.
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Mirror can handle symbolic links but not ordinary links.
It does not duplicate owner or group information. If you
require any of these options, use rdist(1) instead.
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G> They all just copy the symlink and not the file. The man pages
G> don't address the problem at all. I have tried fmirror, lftp and
G> lurkftp.
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If the remote site contains symlinks that you want to
"flatten out" into the corresponding files, then do this
by changing the flags passed to the remote ls:
flags_recursive+L
or
flags_nonrecursive+L
First test this by trying a ls -lRatL on the remote site
under the ftp command to check whether the remote file-
store has any symlink loops.
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make_bad_symlinks
If true, symlinks will be made to invalid
(non-existent) pathnames. Under older ver
sions this defaulted to true. [false]
follow_local_symlinks
Regexp of pathnames that should be followed
to the file or directory they point at.
This makes local symlinks invisible to mir
ror. ['']
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manoj
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