On Thu, Feb 06, 2003 at 11:30:36AM -0500, Sam Steingold wrote: > mirroring twice (first direct then reverse) modifies the remote site! > > remote site: > foo.net:/pub/ftp/bar/zot.txt, > zot.txt is a symbolic link to ../../bazonk/zoo.txt > locally: > lftp:> mirror -L bar . > creates file zot.txt locally (with timestamp of the remote zoo.txt) > [there is no ../../bazonk/ locally, I want the true file here] > lftp:> mirror -R . bar > __removes__ the symbolic link zot.txt and replaces it with a text file > identical to the local zot.txt (which is identical to the remote > zoo.txt).
Try `mirror -R -L . bar' (that is, with -L option). -- Alexander.
