rsync and missing files?

[John Madden]

>> Well, since this was the only response, are we looking at the
>> possibility of this being the default behavior?
>
> I don't think it would be a good idea to have qmail-specific locking in
> rsync.

Agreed - and I don't run qmail anyway (courier), but I thought he meant
"some form of locking."

>> I'd be quite happy with rsync just throwing a warning and going to the
>> next file, or at least there being an option to turn on such behavior.
>
> Isn't that the current behaviour?

No, not at all.  As per my original post, rsync will complain about the list
of files it can't open and then just exit.  At least, that's what it appears
to be doing!

John



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John Madden
UNIX Systems Engineer
Ivy Tech State College
jmadden at ivy.tec.in.us