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 at 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 >