rsync - May 2015 - mtime not updating on remote directory

Hello,

I'm using rsync as part of a centralised config management for several
servers.  I'm trying to monitor the mtime of a particular directory and
confirm that the remote copies are approximately as new as the the local master.
However, mtime on that directory is not being synced.  Here's my rsync
command:

cd $confdir && rsync -avpzR --checksum -I -e "ssh"
--exclude='old/' ./* user at remotehost:/

My impression is that this should sync mtime to the remote dir, if that mtime
has changed locally.  However that's not happening.  It doesn't seem to
me that any of my options implies --omit-dir-times, but maybe I'm missing
something - Any clues?

Thanks in advance!
tom

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Seems to work when I tried it.  Is the directory listed when you run
it?  What does --itemize-changes say?

My first guess is that it would be an interaction between --checksum
and --ignore-times which are fairly opposite functions and --checksum
is usually the wrong thing to use.

Also btw, you don't need -p -R or -e "ssh".

Also, use ./ instead of ./*  This wouldn't affect your current command
but it would if you were using --delete so I consider it a bad habit.

On 05/18/2015 08:36 AM, tomr wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> I'm using rsync as part of a centralised config management for
> several servers.  I'm trying to monitor the mtime of a particular
> directory and confirm that the remote copies are approximately as
> new as the the local master.  However, mtime on that directory is
> not being synced.  Here's my rsync command:
> 
> cd $confdir && rsync -avpzR --checksum -I -e "ssh"
--exclude='old/'
> ./* user at remotehost:/
> 
> My impression is that this should sync mtime to the remote dir, if
> that mtime has changed locally.  However that's not happening.  It
> doesn't seem to me that any of my options implies --omit-dir-times,
> but maybe I'm missing something - Any clues?
> 
> Thanks in advance! tom
> 
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