Simultaneous rsyncs?

2004-04-30 Thread Marc Sarrel
Hi, What would happen if two people ran rsync on the same set of source files to the same destination machine? Do we need some sort of queuing or interlock mechanism to prevent simultaneous rsyncs? We have a script that uses rsync to distribute files from our AFS space here to the local

Orphaned rsync process on remote machine?

2003-12-22 Thread Marc Sarrel
All, Sometimes when I do an rsync, it times out and leaves on orphaned process on the remote machine. I am running rsync over ssh using public key authentication. I synchronize about twenty-five machines, and this problem only appears on one of them. It worked until recently on this

Orphaned rsync process on remote machine?

2003-12-22 Thread Marc Sarrel
Upon further investigation, I think I found part of the problem. There was a weird circular link in the destination directory. I'm running a test of the fix right now. I ran a test with no --timeout option and that seemed to work. Then I found and deleted the circular link and am re-running