On Mon, 06 Jan 2003, J. Milgram <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>sorry if this is old stuff, but I did my best to look first...
>
>Have been getting errors along these lines:
>
>mv mydir mdir.2002
>ln -s mydir.2002 mydir
>
>Then update mirror with rsync -av --delete-after. Without
>--delete-after, no problem, with --delete-after, get a code 23.
...
>delete_file: rmdir(a/b) : Directory not empty
>rsync: symlink "a/b" -> "b.1": File exists
[ snip ]
Hi J.,
My recent reply to someone else about deleting non-empty directories
that have been replaced with a symlink may have the info you need:
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From: John Van Essen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Mon, 6 Jan 2003 02:05:47 CST
Subject: Re: directories that change into symlinks
What you need is the --force option. It's not obvious from the
all-too-generic name, but that will do the trick.
To the rsync maintainers - this is somewhat of an FAQ. Perhaps
the error message could also say '(see the --force option)' to
help users discover the solution more easily.
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Although, I'm not sure why there are 'no problems' when you don't
use --delete-after... It should still be trying to replace the
directory with the symlink even if no --delete* options are used,
and you should still need to use --force to get it to delete the
existing non-empty directory.
--
John Van Essen Univ of MN Alumnus <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
3DGamers Systems Software Support <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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