[CentOS] mkdir Fail when creating multiple directories

[Scot L. Harris]

On Tue, 2006-02-21 at 18:44 -0500, Data Control Systems - Mike Elkevizth
wrote:
> Hi, I use the program Unison to synchronize two servers and have been
> having a problem recently with errors saying mkdir failed.
> The program tries to make backup copies of any file it is going to
> overwrite before it actually does the sync. The backups have been
> failing because of the mkdir failure. To try and find the problem, I
> logged in as root and then tried the same command that unison was
> trying and it failed for me also. I can't seem to get mkdir to create
> more than one directory at a time which is a real problem for unison,
> because sometimes the file to be backed up is 5 or 6 directories deep.
> Does anyone know why this could happen? I am running CentOS 4.0 with
> all the available security updates applied.
>  
Check the man page out for mkdir.

The -p option is probably what you need.

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