Update of several SPECIFIC files

[Dave Dykstra]

Because you specified only the target and not the destination, rsync goes
into it's listing mode which looks like ls -l output.  You should put
in a / for the source.

Alternatively, since they're all in the same destination directory, you
could list all the sources in the command line instead of using an
--include-from and make the target be remotehost:/etc.

- Dave Dykstra

On Thu, Nov 08, 2001 at 09:47:30AM -0800, Bill Schuller wrote:
> I am trying to sync several specific files over ssh. This works fine when I specify the files indivdually, a la:
> 
> rsync -av --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync /etc/passwd remotehost:/etc/passwd
> 
> What I want to do though, is update several files at once, a la:
> 
> rsync -av --rsync-path=/usr/local/bin/rsync --include-from updatesys.inc remotehost:
> 
> See below for updatesys.inc. The file list gets generated just fine. It doesn't update any of the files on the remote host though. Here's the output:
> 
> receiving file list ... done
> drwxr-xr-x        512 2001/11/02 10:06:53 .
> drwxr-xr-x       3584 2001/11/07 15:58:42 etc
> -rw-r--r--        185 2001/11/01 18:02:54 etc/auto_home
> -rw-r--r--        113 2001/11/01 18:03:03 etc/auto_master
> -rw-r--r--        558 2001/11/01 18:01:38 etc/group
> -rw-r--r--         54 2000/01/08 18:04:21 etc/motd
> -r--r--r--       1239 2001/11/07 15:55:38 etc/passwd
> -r--------        592 2001/11/07 15:58:42 etc/shadow
> -r--r-----        884 2001/11/01 18:02:44 etc/sudoers
> wrote 192 bytes  read 232 bytes  282.67 bytes/sec
> total size is 3625  speedup is 8.55
> 
> Any ideas?
> 
> 
> 
> ######updatesys.inc############################
> 
> /
> /etc/
> /etc/passwd
> /etc/shadow
> /etc/group
> /etc/sudoers
> /etc/auto_master
> /etc/auto_home
> /etc/motd
> - *