Jim Perrin spake the following on 8/30/2007 8:56 AM: > Please for the love of God fix how your client handles email threads. > > On 8/30/07, Jerry Geis <geisj at pagestation.com> wrote: > >> I was trying to do "rsync -a root at machine2:/somedirectory ." >> >> There are multiple directories under the tree and yes many files. >> >> also tried "scp -r root at machine2:/somedirectory ." with the same result of too many files. > > How many files are in the directory here? I've never run across this > sort of thing acting on the directory and not the files themselves. > > Nor have I, and I have copied entire machines over rsync. Maybe an -av will give more detail. -- MailScanner is like deodorant... You hope everybody uses it, and you notice quickly if they don't!!!!