Re: directories that change into symlinks

2003-01-06 Thread John Van Essen
Dave, 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. --

Re: directories that change into symlinks

2003-01-06 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 02:05:47AM -0600, John Van Essen wrote: > Dave, > > 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 '(

Re: directories that change into symlinks

2003-01-06 Thread David Garamond
John Van Essen wrote: Dave, 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 sol

Bug or feature? --delete-after + symlinks

2003-01-06 Thread J. Milgram
Hi, 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. The attached shel

passing additional options to SSH on the rsync command line?

2003-01-06 Thread magicdb
I have an account on evilserver. evilserver requires a *login* of the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". something to do with cheap hosting, I suppose. ssh gets ill on that. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]@domain.com is no good. So I do this: ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] domain.com which works just fine: ssh uses th

Re: passing additional options to SSH on the rsync command line?

2003-01-06 Thread jw schultz
On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:50:04PM -0700, magicdb wrote: > > I have an account on evilserver. > evilserver requires a *login* of the form "[EMAIL PROTECTED]". something > to do with cheap hosting, I suppose. > > ssh gets ill on that. ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED]@domain.com is no good. > > So I do th

Re: Bug or feature? --delete-after + symlinks

2003-01-06 Thread John Van Essen
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 p