Scott Moseman 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 > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos > Scott, also, instead of running rsync twice between local & remote host, you may want to run it once between local & remote and once between the two remote host locations. Or even just do a ssh $DEST cp $DST1 $DST2 as a conf file will be small anyway. Yiorgos