I just realized that "application.conf" is an automatically generated file, and I think it might be running around the same time as the replication script. Perhaps my replication script and the auto-generation script are occasionally running at the exact same time, thus causing the replication script to not have a complete file to transmit. I'm staggering the replication script to see if that solves the problem.

Thanks, Scott

On Nov 14, 2007 3:45 PM, Scott Moseman scmoseman@gmail.com wrote:

I have a simple script that sends one file to two locations on the same destination server. Here's the code:

DEST="remotehost" SRC="/home/boss/application.conf" DST1="/home/user1/application.conf" DST2="/home/user2/application.conf" RSYNC1=`rsync -caW -e ssh $SRC $DEST:$DST1` RSYNC2=`rsync -caW -e ssh $SRC $DEST:$DST2`

This runs every 5 minutes. What I'm seeing is the first location occasionally gets a *partial* file, but the second location never has a problem. There does not appear to be any obvious correlation to why this would be happening. I have never witnessed the problem when running the script by hand to try and duplicate, witness any error output, etc.

Any idea how to troubleshoot? Or how I can get rsync to verify the file has been transferred without error? A more reliable alternative than using rsync for this situation?

Thanks, Scott