dg/ux --delete anomaly

jw schultz jw at pegasys.ws
Sun Dec 14 03:39:27 EST 2003


On Sat, Dec 13, 2003 at 10:54:34AM -0500, Tim Boyer wrote:
> I'm running rsync 2.5.7 on Data General dg/ux 4.20, and just noticed that
> the --delete command is not deleting.
> 
> # />ls -la /test
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other           512 Dec 13 10:46 .
> drwxr-xr-x  37 root     root           1536 Dec 13 10:46 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 b
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 c
> 
> # />ls -la /test1
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other           512 Dec 13 10:47 .
> drwxr-xr-x  37 root     root           1536 Dec 13 10:46 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 d
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 e
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:47 f
> 
> # />rsync -a --delete /test/* /test1

Unless you specify a directory it cannot delete.
Try that with
# />rsync -a --delete /test/ /test1
instead

> # />ls -la /test1
> total 5
> drwxr-xr-x   2 root     other           512 Dec 13 10:50 .
> drwxr-xr-x  37 root     root           1536 Dec 13 10:49 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 a
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 b
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:46 c
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:49 d
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:50 e
> -rw-r--r--   1 root     other             0 Dec 13 10:50 f
> 
> Works fine under Linux, of course.
> 
> I'm more than willing to dive into the code, but I've got no idea where to
> start.  Thanks for any suggestions...


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