Hi all,

I run the LittleProjects.org mirror. To ensure that the mirrors are running properly I have the cron job send me an email after each run (every 4 hours). Most of the time I check the message date and note that it is on schedule. About once a day I look at the contents to see if anything new has come up.

Recently I noticed rsync had the following output:

<rsync output> 2.1/ 2.1/extras/ 2.1/extras/HEADER.html -> /home/centos/centos/HEADER.html 2.1/extras/HEADER.images -> /home/centos/centos/HEADER.images 2.1/extras/SRPMS/ 2.1/extras/SRPMS/HEADER.html -> /home/centos/centos/HEADER.html 2.1/extras/SRPMS/HEADER.images -> /home/centos/centos/HEADER.images </rsync output>

My script also runs chown (and selinux's chcon) after the rsync so that the files have the correct permissions/types. If I hadn't seen these errors I wouldn't have thought to look at the text above:

<chown errors> /bin/chown: changing ownership of `/misc/mirrors/centos.org/2.1/extras/SRPMS/HEADER.html': No such file or directory /bin/chown: changing ownership of `/misc/mirrors/centos.org/2.1/extras/SRPMS/HEADER.images': No such file or directory /bin/chown: changing ownership of `/misc/mirrors/centos.org/2.1/extras/headers/HEADER.html': No such file or directory /bin/chown: changing ownership of `/misc/mirrors/centos.org/2.1/extras/headers/HEADER.images': No such file or directory </chown errors>

I have no '/home/centos/centos' directory for these symlinks to point to. They are all over the place. Was this a momentary mistake? Or, am I just running rsync with the wrong options?

My rsync command is /usr/bin/rsync -avzH --delete us-msync.centos.org::CentOS /misc/mirrors/centos.org

I believe I can change the rsync options to copy the files the links point to, rather than preserving the links. Essentially, I'll remove the -a option and replace it with its useful constituent options.

Any suggestions?

Sincerely,

Shawn M. Jones