I presume the option --copy-unsafe-links really means to copy the file contents a symlink points to, even outside the tree being copyed, rather than make a symlink on the destination.
What I find is that if a symlink on the source is dangling, that is, it points to nothing that exists, that symlink is not created at the destination. What I want is for all symlinks to be reproduced as symlinks exactly, regardless of whether what they point to happens to exist at the moment or not. How can I get this? The option --links is only working when the symlink actually points to something (e.g. stat() succeeds). But if stat() fails, even though lstat() would succeed, the symlink is not copied. -- ----------------------------------------------------------------- | Phil Howard - KA9WGN | Dallas | http://linuxhomepage.com/ | | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Texas, USA | http://phil.ipal.org/ | ----------------------------------------------------------------- -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
