delete files

[Paul Slootman]

On Mon 21 Nov 2011, Brian K. White wrote:
> On 11/19/2011 9:04 AM, Francis.Montagnac at inria.fr wrote:
> >
> >On Tue, 15 Nov 2011 23:49:18 +0100 "Brian K. White" wrote:
> >
> >>nj2:/opt/x # rsync -avvvn --force --delete --include=/tmp
> >>--include=floof/ --exclude='*' /tmp/. co4::root/tmp/.
> >
> >Detail: /tmp being the "root of the transfer", "--include=/tmp" is
> >wrong because it refers then to /tmp/tmp.

> root of the transfer is always "/"
> Call it bad policy if you want but the way I'm managing a collection
> of more or less cookie cutter boxes is, all boxes have a rsync
> daemon running, and /etc/rsyncd.conf includes:
[...]
> [root]
>         path = /

No, the path of your module is /, the root of a transfer if you use
"co4::root/tmp/." is /tmp/.  Don't confuse the two.


Paul