On Sat, 11 Jul 1998, Wojtek Sylwestrzak wrote:
> > > > > I've done a couple of passes now, and I'm consistently getting messages > > > such as these: > > > > > > skipping non-regular file dist/binaries/sinix_5.4 > > > skipping non-regular file from-cvs > > > skipping non-regular file java/Oimages > > > skipping non-regular file java/dist/LICENSE > > ... > > > > those are all symlinks... it's fine that you're not copying them. > > Uhm, is it fine ? > use -l option to copy symlinks (unless you don't want them for a reason). Sure, and then if someone breaks into taz and puts a symlink "foo -> /" then rsync will copy it... which is fine for chroot'd ftpds. But if you also serve that filespace via a non-chrooted httpd, then you could be opening yourself up to something you don't want. Dean
