On Fri, Mar 30, 2001 at 06:05:19PM +0100, M. Drew Streib wrote:
...
> On a related note. I _really_ wish there was a way to tell rsync that
> a permissions error on the server shouldn't stop _all_ file deletions from
> happening.
>
> Ideally, it should only stop deletion of the file(s) with the permissions
> problem, although I realize that this is non-trivial given the current logic.
>
> Alternately, some sort of flag to say that a permissions error is not
> an IO error would also be helpful.
That sounds reasonable as a default to me. The whole purpose for the not
doing deletes on an error is for genuine I/O errors, not for permission
errors.
- Dave
