You want everything in wex into wex on the remote. Gotcha. Let's take a simple case. wex contains a b c d e. "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -r --delete --perms --owner --group /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mail/spool/imap/user/wex" on the commandline becomes "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -r --delete --perms --owner --group /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/a /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/b /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/c /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/d /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/e [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mail/spool/imap/user/wex". The parameter ending in "*" is replaced by as many entries as there are in the directory, which can be quite a loth, and is your problem. rsync is perfectly happy to handle freaking enormous numbers of files, but it has to find out about them. Unless there's some valid reason why you want to avoid applying perms,owner,group to the wex directory itself, "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -r --delete --perms --owner --group /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mail/spool/imap/user/wex/." will work nicely, or perhaps "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -r --delete --perms --owner --group /mail/spool/imap/user/wex [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mail/spool/imap/user". These will let rsync build the filelist itself, avoiding problems (and plain old inefficiencies) of argument passing. Speaking of inefficiencies, unless you want to avoid maintaining symlinks devices (not likely to be there anyway) and times, you can improve readability by changing your commandline to "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -a --delete /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/. [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mail/spool/imap/user/wex/." Letting it keep times synced lets it use them to optimize future syncs by not checksumming files that match in name/timestamp/size. "-a" is a lot faster to type than "--owner --group --perms --times --links --recursive --devices"
Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services desk:3032734776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] I get this error when I try to copy a directory with a lot of files: "bash: /usr/local/bin/rsync: Argument list too long" The exact command is: "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -r --delete --perms --owner --group /mail/spool/imap/user/wex/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mail/spool/imap/user/wex". BUT, if I try tris command it works: "/usr/local/bin/rsync -rsh=/usr/bin/rsh -r --delete --perms --owner --group /mail/spool/imap/user/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/mail/spool/imap/user/wex". -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
