A couple of key words in the message. perhaps or " client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option? "
If you had specified a filename (that exists on the server) and the client gets nothing There is a good chance that you wanted to use --recursive. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Dan Jacobson Sent: Friday, April 22, 2005 8:58 PM To: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: I already used --recursive In /usr/share/doc/rsync/README.gz: BUG REPORTS ----------- If you have web access then please look at... Well what if you don't have web access? You don't mention what to do then. "Send bugs to rsync@lists.samba.org" probably. OK. Will do. Here's one now: $ rsync -avz debian.linux.org.tw:var/lib/apt/diet.lists var/lib/apt/diet.lists receiving file list ... link_stat var/lib/apt/diet.lists : No such file or directory done client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option? It turns out I spelled the input filename wrong. The bug? Telling me to try --recursive when as everybody knows, -a, --archive archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD -r, --recursive recurse into directories So I already was trying --recursive! -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
