On Fri, Sep 17, 2004 at 02:24:26PM +0100, Gordon Lack wrote:
>Is there some way to get symlinks to replace non-empty directories
> without using --delete?
The --force option does this.
..wayne..
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If, in a hierarchy which has been previously rsync()ed, I replace a
non-empty directory with a symbolic link the rsync will fail.
It does work if the original directory was empty.
It also works if I specify --delete (presumably since that deletes
first, so we end up with an empty directo
There's a sorting bug in 2.6.1 that can occur when --relative is used
that can make it update files incorrectly (since the file list is out
of order, rsync asks for the wrong file's data).
** Do not use --relative (-R) in 2.6.1. **
** Don't forget that --files-from sets --rela
I'm not sure what the code is trying to do, but the SGI Irix
compiler spotted this usage of an undefined variable.
In uidlist.c:
===
static int map_uid(int id, char *name)
{
uid_t uid;
if (uid != 0 && name_to_uid(name, &uid))
return uid;
return
