synced files are linked to originals?

[lewis butler]

On 28-Jul-2008, at 08:03, Matt McCutchen wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:33 +0200, Mogens Kjaer wrote:
>> lewis butler wrote:
>> ...
>>> mail ~ $ ls -ls etc/postfix/main.cf
>>> 28 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28322 Jul 27 16:31 /etc/postfix/ 
>>> main.cf
>>> mail ~ $ ls -ls /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf
>>> 28 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28322 Jul 27 16:31
>>> /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf
>>> mail ~ $ echo "#test" >> /etc/postfix/main.cf
>>> mail ~ $ ls -ls /etc/postfix/main.cf
>>> 28 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28328 Jul 28 03:39 /etc/postfix/ 
>>> main.cf
>>> mail ~ $ ls -ls /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf
>>> 28 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28328 Jul 28 03:39
>>> /backup/daily.0/etc/postfix/main.cf
>>
>> Is /etc/postfix a symlink?
>
> If /etc/postfix is an absolute symlink, that would do it.

Ah... /etc/postfix is a symlink to /usr/local/etc/postfix/

> Lewis, if you want symlinks in backups to point to the proper items  
> in the backup, you
> could make the original symlinks relative.

ah... well, that would be ugly

> Alternatively, you could
> avoid all symlink surprises by using a daemon on the receiving side  
> with
> "munge symlinks" enabled.

This is a local rsync, so there's no receiving daemon.

I see the actual files differ...

  mail ~ $ ls -ls /usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf /backup/akane.sday.0/ 
usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf
28 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28322 Jul 27 16:31 /backup/akane.sday.0/ 
usr/local/etc/postfix/main.cf
28 -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  28334 Jul 28 11:09 /usr/local/etc/ 
postfix/main.cf

Is there anything else I can do other than remember which paths are  
symlinked?  I have quite a lot of /usr/local/etc/ linked to /etc/ for  
convenience (postfix, apache2/ -> httpd/, etc) ... not that I am  
likely to forget NOW.  Maybe I don't need the -H option after all...