On Wed, Jan 09, 2002 at 11:55:24AM -0500, Philip Mak wrote: > I have a nightly cronjob that uses rsync to back up the files on > another machine. Sometimes, I see error messages like this: > > send_files failed to open >usr/home/setsuna/Maildir/new/1010573771.27924.lina.aaanime.net: No such file or >directory > > It seems that the file existed at the moment rsync started, but as it > was running that file (it's a file that stores an e-mail message; > presumably the user retrieved and deleted it) was removed, so rsync > was not able to get it. > > Is my assessment correct?
Yes. > Can I make rsync suppress this sort of error > message, so that these messages don't show up in my mailbox? No, you'll have to post-process the output of rsync. - Dave
