Re: delete fails to delete everything it should like dangling symlinks
Try it without --delete-after. I'm pretty sure that --delete-after also affects --force, so I think it's trying to write to the directory pointed to by the symlink, which doesn't exist. I could be wrong, but that looks like the most likely interaction. Tim Conway [EMAIL PROTECTED] 303.682.4917 Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC 1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D Longmont, CO 80501 Available via SameTime Connect within Philips, n9hmg on AIM perl -e 'print pack(, 19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), .\n ' There are some who call me Tim? Phil Howard [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/2002 11:35 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] cc: (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS) Subject:delete fails to delete everything it should like dangling symlinks Classification: I think someone posted this before, but I can't find it in the archives. I am using rsync to pull down source files to be compiled. The delete options are used to clear out any old files left over from previous. Normally this works. I've run into one case where it persistently fails. Within the directory created during compiling is a symlink to another directory, also created during compiling (well, literally, during tar extraction done by the script that does the compiling). When rsync is run to re-syncronize, which should delete all created files (including all those extracted from the tar file), the directory that is the target of the symlink apparently is deleted first. Then when the symlink is encountered, I get an error saying that readlink gets No such file or directory. This doesn't make sense since readlink should work on a dangling link. Here's a paste of manually doing the rsync within the same host (warning, the first line is 318 characters long): = root@pollux:/home/root/src 152 rsync --checksum --copy-unsafe-links --compress '--exclude=*~' '--exclude=#*#' --force --group --links --owner --partial --perms --progress --recursive --timeout=150 --times --verbose --delete --delete-after --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --force /home/root/src-pub/ /home/root/src/ rsync: building file list... rsync: 809 files to consider. readlink openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des/asm/perlasm: No such file or directory readlink openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm/perlasm: No such file or directory wrote 34720 bytes read 20 bytes 4087.06 bytes/sec total size is 85523954 speedup is 2461.83 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(576) root@pollux:/home/root/src 153 readlink openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm/perlasm ../../perlasm root@pollux:/home/root/src 154 rsync --version rsync version 2.5.2 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums root@pollux:/home/root/src 155 = As you can see I'm using a number of options that should, according to the man page, make sure things get deleted. But this is not happening. I assume that partial transfer (code 23) error message is because it did recognize that it failed to completely get things in sync. BTW, after manually deleting the 2 symlinks, it works fine: = root@pollux:/home/root/src 155 rm -f openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des/asm/perlasm root@pollux:/home/root/src 156 rm -f openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm/perlasm root@pollux:/home/root/src 157 rsync --checksum --copy-unsafe-links --compress '--exclude=*~' '--exclude=#*#' --force --group --links --owner --partial --perms --progress --recursive --timeout=150 --times --verbose --delete --delete-after --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --force /home/root/src-pub/ /home/root/src/ rsync: building file list... rsync: 809 files to consider. deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des/asm deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work wrote 34720 bytes read 20 bytes 4087.06 bytes/sec total size is 85523954 speedup is 2461.83 root@pollux:/home/root/src 158
Re: delete fails to delete everything it should like dangling symlinks
On Fri, Mar 08, 2002 at 09:46:46AM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: | Try it without --delete-after. I'm pretty sure that --delete-after also | affects --force, so I think it's trying to write to the directory pointed | to by the symlink, which doesn't exist. I could be wrong, but that looks | like the most likely interaction. Same problem: = root@pollux:/home/root/src 347 rsync --checksum --copy-unsafe-links --compress '--exclude=*~' '--exclude=#*#' --force --group --links --owner --partial --perms --progress --recursive --timeout=150 --times --verbose --delete --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --force /home/root/src-pub/ /home/root/src/ rsync: building file list... rsync: 809 files to consider. readlink openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des/asm/perlasm: No such file or directory readlink openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm/perlasm: No such file or directory wrote 34720 bytes read 20 bytes 2395.86 bytes/sec total size is 85523958 speedup is 2461.83 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(576) root@pollux:/home/root/src 348 = The --copy-unsafe-links seems to be the culprit. If I take that out it then works to delete these symlinks. ATM I can't recall why I put that in. I'm sure I'll find out soon enough unless it was some bug from an older version that is now fixed. -- - | 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
delete fails to delete everything it should like dangling symlinks
I think someone posted this before, but I can't find it in the archives. I am using rsync to pull down source files to be compiled. The delete options are used to clear out any old files left over from previous. Normally this works. I've run into one case where it persistently fails. Within the directory created during compiling is a symlink to another directory, also created during compiling (well, literally, during tar extraction done by the script that does the compiling). When rsync is run to re-syncronize, which should delete all created files (including all those extracted from the tar file), the directory that is the target of the symlink apparently is deleted first. Then when the symlink is encountered, I get an error saying that readlink gets No such file or directory. This doesn't make sense since readlink should work on a dangling link. Here's a paste of manually doing the rsync within the same host (warning, the first line is 318 characters long): = root@pollux:/home/root/src 152 rsync --checksum --copy-unsafe-links --compress '--exclude=*~' '--exclude=#*#' --force --group --links --owner --partial --perms --progress --recursive --timeout=150 --times --verbose --delete --delete-after --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --force /home/root/src-pub/ /home/root/src/ rsync: building file list... rsync: 809 files to consider. readlink openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des/asm/perlasm: No such file or directory readlink openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm/perlasm: No such file or directory wrote 34720 bytes read 20 bytes 4087.06 bytes/sec total size is 85523954 speedup is 2461.83 rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(576) root@pollux:/home/root/src 153 readlink openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm/perlasm ../../perlasm root@pollux:/home/root/src 154 rsync --version rsync version 2.5.2 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others http://rsync.samba.org/ Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 32-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums root@pollux:/home/root/src 155 = As you can see I'm using a number of options that should, according to the man page, make sure things get deleted. But this is not happening. I assume that partial transfer (code 23) error message is because it did recognize that it failed to completely get things in sync. BTW, after manually deleting the 2 symlinks, it works fine: = root@pollux:/home/root/src 155 rm -f openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des/asm/perlasm root@pollux:/home/root/src 156 rm -f openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm/perlasm root@pollux:/home/root/src 157 rsync --checksum --copy-unsafe-links --compress '--exclude=*~' '--exclude=#*#' --force --group --links --owner --partial --perms --progress --recursive --timeout=150 --times --verbose --delete --delete-after --delete-excluded --ignore-errors --force /home/root/src-pub/ /home/root/src/ rsync: building file list... rsync: 809 files to consider. deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des/asm deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto/des deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c/crypto deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp/openssl-0.9.6c deleting directory openssl-0.9.6c/tmp deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des/asm deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto/des deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b/crypto deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work/openssl-0.9.6b deleting directory openssl-0.9.6b/work wrote 34720 bytes read 20 bytes 4087.06 bytes/sec total size is 85523954 speedup is 2461.83 root@pollux:/home/root/src 158 = -- - | 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
