Hi,
I've just created a small directory as an example, it holds a file and two symlinks that don't point to anything, and another symlink going nowhere in a subdirectory. rsync (2.5.5) is happy to copy these but produces an error. I can't see why it considers this an error? It's not even aborting after it first encounters this 'error'. $ ls -lR /var/tmp/rsync.test /var/tmp/rsync.test: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 kjw group 512 May 20 15:45 deeper -rw-r--r-- 1 kjw group 6 May 20 15:29 hello.world lrwxrwxrwx 1 kjw group 9 May 20 15:30 symbolic.link -> inky-void lrwxrwxrwx 1 kjw group 11 May 20 15:38 symbolic.link.2 -> inky-void.2 /var/tmp/rsync.test/deeper: total 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 kjw group 11 May 20 15:45 symbolic.link.3 -> inky-void.3 $ rsync -vaz /var/tmp/rsync.test otherhost:/var/tmp building file list ... done rsync.test/ rsync.test/deeper/ stat(rsync.test/deeper/symbolic.link.3) : No such file or directory rsync.test/deeper/symbolic.link.3 -> inky-void.3 rsync.test/hello.world stat(rsync.test/symbolic.link) : No such file or directory rsync.test/symbolic.link -> inky-void stat(rsync.test/symbolic.link.2) : No such file or directory rsync.test/symbolic.link.2 -> inky-void.2 rsync.test/ rsync.test/deeper/ wrote 278 bytes read 36 bytes 209.33 bytes/sec total size is 37 speedup is 0.12 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(578) $ echo $? 23 $ rsh otherhost ls -lR /var/tmp/rsync.test /var/tmp/rsync.test: total 8 drwxr-xr-x 2 kjw group 512 May 20 15:45 deeper -rw-r--r-- 1 kjw group 6 May 20 15:29 hello.world lrwxrwxrwx 1 kjw group 9 May 20 15:48 symbolic.link -> inky-void lrwxrwxrwx 1 kjw group 11 May 20 15:48 symbolic.link.2 -> inky-void.2 /var/tmp/rsync.test/deeper: total 2 lrwxrwxrwx 1 kjw group 11 May 20 15:48 symbolic.link.3 -> inky-void.3 regards |<evin -- Kevin J Walters Morgan Stanley [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] 20 Cabot Square Tel: 020 7425 7886 Canary Wharf Fax: 020 7677 8504 London E14 4QW -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
