hiya, i think what you really want is rsync. you can do something like
su webuser -c "rsync -avP /workingdir /livedir"
(a is for preserve time/ownership/etc, vP is for a verbose status
report)
i believe that this way rsync will preserve all attributes except for
ownership, assuming that your webuser is a non-root account. the nice
thing about rsync is that it only copies over the changed/new files,
possibly saving tons of disk activity/bandwidth.
> 1) LIVE has a different "owner:group" than WORKING.
i think su'ing to that user will do the trick, otherwise a chown -R.
it's also possibly that you can specify which attributes specifically
to preserve, but i'd have to do some fine manual page reading.
> 2) If I move/rename files or diretories, I need this updated.
rsync --delete will delete files/directories in the dest dir that don't
exist in the source dir. i recommend using EXTREME caution with this
option though. a good way to test is to add -n to the call to rsync,
which does a dry run telling everything it *would* do.
> 3) It only has to update once every 24 hours. <- Probably cron to do this.
i use rsync for stuff like this all the time
> 4) I will eventually have them on seperate computers so I can't just use
> the following which is what I am currently doing:
rsync can do sync's over the net too. the format is
rsync srcdir host:destdir
hth
sean
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