On 22 Dec 2001, Han <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I am on a developpers list for mandrake: cooker@ and the rsync-servers
> broke which resulted in a lot of very unhappy people cause their rsync
> directories got empied.
Sorry about that...
rsync should never delete local files just because the server is
unreachable. Is that what happened?
> # these are the packages that are no longer on the server.
>
> rm package-2.4.8
> rm nother1-4.5.6
>
> Now all the rsync user has to do is having a look at that list and sh
> it if he agrees.
You can get that behaviour by using --dry-run first to see if the
proposed modifications are reasonable. If you discover any bugs that
cause --dry-run not to be accurate then please report them.
--
Martin
The daffodils are coming. Are you?
linux.conf.au, February 2002, Brisbane, Australia
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