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. >