On Thu, Sep 13, 2001 at 07:28:46PM -0800, Britton wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth wrote:
>
> > Can rsync be made to merge files? For instance, could I synchronize mboxes
> > between multiple computers, even though they're all changing?
>
> Not if they are changing simultaneously. You c
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth wrote:
> On Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:28, you wrote:
> > On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth wrote:
> > > Can rsync be made to merge files? For instance, could I synchronize
> > > mboxes between multiple computers, even though they're all changing?
> >
> > Not if
On 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I'll avoid simultaneous changes, then, by remembering (or automating) updates
> before switching computers. I could probably do this pretty easily as some
> sort of an eth0-up script.
>
> > On the other hand, if only one system changes at
On 13 Sep 2001, Britton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth wrote:
>
> > Can rsync be made to merge files? For instance, could I synchronize mboxes
> > between multiple computers, even though they're all changing?
>
> Not if they are changing simultaneously. You can'
On Thursday, September 13, 2001 10:28, you wrote:
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth wrote:
> > Can rsync be made to merge files? For instance, could I synchronize
> > mboxes between multiple computers, even though they're all changing?
>
> Not if they are changing simultaneously. You can't do tha
On Thu, 13 Sep 2001, Andy Goth wrote:
> Can rsync be made to merge files? For instance, could I synchronize mboxes
> between multiple computers, even though they're all changing?
Not if they are changing simultaneously. You can't do that at all,
without a distributed filesystem with locking.