Realtime rsyncing

[Chuck Wolber]

On Mon, 5 Jul 2004, Henry van der Beek wrote:

> Hi, I am trying to synchronise two directories on separate machines
> across a network using rsync, but I want to apply rsync whenever the
> contents of the directories are altered, rather than using a cron job.
> Does anyone have any ideas? We are running Redhat9.0. Thanks Henry

You might want to look at dnotify: 

http://www.student.lu.se/~nbi98oli/dnotify.html

It's likely that rsync isn't the right tool for the job you're describing 
IMHO. 

-Chuck


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