Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-24 Thread Keith Warno
* <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [24/08/2005 1153EDT]: [...] > .testing2:5=grwx > > So, it appears that the colon is the problem here. Ya, 'cause windows might get confused and think it's a reference to a drive letter. -- SA Valaran Corp GPG: 0xEC705AE9 I put the sh in IT. pgpO4Os36UEto.pgp Description

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-24 Thread Brent Blayney
filename: .testing2:5=grwx So, it appears that the colon is the problem here. - Original Message - From: "John Jablonski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tim Conway" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Brent Blayney" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-24 Thread Terry Dooher
John Jablonski wrote: Hmmm. Oddly (?) enough, you can make a ".FILE" using a dos prompt (cmd), but not using the win GUI. RMB->Create new->Text file on your desktop (or anywhere using windows explorer) and try and create a file named ".dotfile". You can't do it (in XP-pro anyways). This i

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-24 Thread John Jablonski
Hmmm. Oddly (?) enough, you can make a ".FILE" using a dos prompt (cmd), but not using the win GUI. RMB->Create new->Text file on your desktop (or anywhere using windows explorer) and try and create a file named ".dotfile". You can't do it (in XP-pro anyways). -john Tim Conway wrote: In

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-24 Thread Tim Conway
In case cygwin was doing some filename mapping, I tried it in cmd: C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1>cd t C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t>dir  Volume in drive C has no label.  Volume Serial Number is 5CC0-9DEE  Directory of C:\DOCUME~1\ADMINI~1\t 08/24/2005  08:54 AM              . 08/24/2005  08:54 AM            

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread David Filion
Henning Wangerin wrote: On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:21, David Filion wrote: John Jablonski wrote: Thing is, it's not an rsync problem. It's a windows filesystem problem. Or at least a windows problem of some sort. You can't have a file called: 1124816518.8634_2.mailbox:2,S in windows.

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread Henning Wangerin
On Tue, 2005-08-23 at 21:21, David Filion wrote: > John Jablonski wrote: > > > Thing is, it's not an rsync problem. It's a windows filesystem > > problem. Or at least a windows problem of some sort. > > > > You can't have a file called: > > 1124816518.8634_2.mailbox:2,S > > in windows. > > > Sure

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread John Jablonski
Yep. I'm sure. There's no colon's in your filenames there. Can't have these characters in a filename: \ / : * ? " < > | -john David Filion wrote: John Jablonski wrote: Thing is, it's not an rsync problem. It's a windows filesystem problem. Or at least a windows problem of some sort. You

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread David Filion
help with your problem, cheers Gaz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jablonski Sent: 23 August 2005 18:11 Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Linux to Windows I have the same problem: backing up IMAP mail on a linux box to a win2k bo

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread Andrew Burgess
On Tue, 23 Aug 2005 11:08:13 -0700, John Jablonski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Thing is, it's not an rsync problem. It's a windows filesystem problem. Or at least a windows problem of some sort. You can't have a file called: 1124816518.8634_2.mailbox:2,S in windows. Perhaps rsync needs a d

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread John Jablonski
em, cheers Gaz -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Jablonski Sent: 23 August 2005 18:11 Cc: rsync@lists.samba.org Subject: Re: Linux to Windows I have the same problem: backing up IMAP mail on a linux box to a win2k box. My solution was t

Re: Linux to Windows

2005-08-23 Thread John Jablonski
I have the same problem: backing up IMAP mail on a linux box to a win2k box. My solution was to tar each mail directory and then rsync that. I'm running a cron job on the linux box to do the tars and rsyncs. -john Brent Blayney wrote: Hello to all, I have a script which uses rsync quite n