Hello...
First off, thanks for the application. It's very, very good.
I'm using lftp on RedHat ES3.0 but have installed the latest rpm (which they are
not on) and can still re-create a possible problem.
When I use this line in an lftp script:
mirror -r -N lastfile ./outgoing ..
where "lastfile" was created via
Lastfile=`ls -tr -1 | tail -1`;
cp -f -p $Lastfile lastfile > /dev/null
from within a ksh shell (basically, it preserves the file timestamp from the
newest file in the
directory). The files in the dir are exactly as they were "delivered" by lftp
(Lastfile is determined
after the lftp xfer from an ftp site).
However, if I then remove all the files in the directory (except for
"lastfile") from my server and run the
pull job again, $Lastfile is once again transferred from the ftp site to my
server. But, the lftp documentation
states for mirror:
"-N, --newer-than=SPEC download only files newer than specified time"
and
"For option --newer-than you can either specify a file or
time specification like that used by at(1) command, e.g.
`now-7days' or `week ago'. If you specify a file, then
modification time of that file will be used."
But, it appears it's doing "equal to and newer than a specified time".
This is causing the same file (which matches the timestamp) to be xfered more
than once
despite my use of a file sentinel which preserves the file timestamp.
I hope I have explained the problem in enough detail for you to understand.
HELP!!! {please :>}
Michael Leib
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