Delete & rename with rsync servers

Dave Dykstra
2002-02-19T05:12:40Z

On Fri, Feb 15, 2002 at 09:03:32AM +0200, Einar Karttunen
wrote:
> Hello
>
> Is it possible to delete or rename
> single files on remote rsync servers?

You do need to be using -r (or -a) to be able to delete something so
if you want to delete only a single file in a directory you'd need to
exclude everything else.  Possible but not very practical.


> I seem to be having problems getting
> normal upload to work too:
> shellak root # ps aux | grep [r]sync
> shellak root # rsync --config=/etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf --daemon
> shellak root # ps aux | grep [r]sync
> root     27527  0.0  0.3  1656  620 ?        S    09:02   0:00 rsync
--config=/etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf --daemon
> shellak root # cat /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf
> # Einar Karttunen 13.2.2002
>
> [lt]
> read only = false
> comment = for testing
> path    = /tmp/rsync-lt
> shellak root # rsync -v .profile localhost::lt
> .profile
> mkstemp ..profile.GzlM7n failed
> wrote 191 bytes  read 56 bytes  494.00 bytes/sec
> total size is 83  speedup is 0.34
> rsync error: partial transfer (code 23) at main.c(576)
> shellak root #

Sounds like the /tmp/rsync-lt directory doesn't exist.

- Dave Dykstra