https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10445
Summary: flag to suppress link_stat error messages Product: rsync Version: 3.1.1 Platform: All OS/Version: All Status: NEW Severity: enhancement Priority: P5 Component: core AssignedTo: way...@samba.org ReportedBy: m...@bitchx.it QAContact: rsync...@samba.org rsync complains about file arguments not existing. For example, running this command to archive a selected set of files: rsync -aq --remove-from-source --remove-source-files /var/log/messages*bz2 /backup/maillog*bz2 /backup/auth.log*bz2 backupserver::myname/ will issue the following errors if any of the given patters has no match: rsync: link_stat "/var/log/messages*bz2" failed: No such file or directory (2) rsync: link_stat "/backups/maillog*bz2" failed: No such file or directory (2) ... One particular application of commands similar to this is to periodically save archives to a central backup server via cron. This causes cron to periodically mail admins with the above errors. The option to divert this to /dev/null is dangerous, as it would lose other error messages which ARE actually useful, such as failures to reach the backup server. A command line argument such as --ignore-missing-files that avods this type of errors (link_stat) would do great. -- Configure bugmail: https://bugzilla.samba.org/userprefs.cgi?tab=email ------- You are receiving this mail because: ------- You are the QA contact for the bug. -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html