On Wed, 28 Jul 2010, Joseph L. Casale wrote: > Anyone know a way around this? I am using the mirror option so I don't > have to keep track of what to get making it simple. my apology in advance for suggesting another tool, but, there you are ... use lftp for mirroring? wget can do mirroring but it is clunky compared to lftp, and much harder to script. man pages are worse, to my taste Looking, it seems I have a bit over 1400 files driving lftp that basically look like this on a local interior mirror [root at xps400 ~]# wc -l *.conf *.conf_ | tail -1 1490 total [root at xps400 ~]# cat lftp-ORC.conf # # inside at ftp.first, this is NOT automatically run # mirror -c -e \ ftp://ftp.owlriver.com/pub/local/ORC \ /var/ftp/pub/mirror/ORC # ------- One can invoke it as simply as: lftp -f lftp-ORC.conf and it will of course run non-root if one desires; it can be wrappered up in a scriptlet (I use a flock scheme in the wrappering so it does not overrun into a prior day's run; mirroring runs continuously) ... http://bugs.centos.org/view.php?id=4443 suggests a simple way to gather detail: export YMD=`date +%Y%m%d` cd $TOP date > DIRECTORY_SIZES.txt date > MANIFEST-${YMD}.txt find . -type d -exec du -sh {} \; >> DIRECTORY_SIZES.txt find . -type f \; >> MANIFEST-${YMD}.txt and diff to taste, optionally automailing when more than the top 'date' line changes -- Russ herrold