On Friday 25 November 2005 22:44, Joseph wrote:
> How to make "--delete" work with rsync over ssh?

By telling rsync to delete.

> When I do "rsync" I want it to delete files on destination if they are
> not present on source:
>
> example:
> rsync -av ssh --delete source/
> [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joseph/destination
> I get:
> building file list ... link_stat "/home/joseph/ssh" failed: No such file
> or directory

Yep, that's exactly what you should see.
You've told rsync to copy ssh and source to 
[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/home/joseph/destination
rsync has defaulted to ssh for ages now, but to force it you have to specify 
the remote shell.

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