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I've only just seen the response from May 9, as I'm not enrolled in the list (too much mail already!). Here is a cut-down example as requested, showing the same behaviour: Script started on Fri May 23 15:18:37 2003 15:18 [220](H:root@Edelfelt)/tmp: ls -l /tmp/testdir total 32 -rw-r----- 1 root other 9 May 23 15:15 both -rw-r----- 1 root other 7 May 23 14:59 source [221](H:root@Edelfelt)/tmp: rsh taz ls -l /tmp/testdir total 32 -rw-r----- 1 root other 7 May 23 14:59 both -rw-r--r-- 1 root...

...mmendation of --dry-run in the rsync man page definition of --delete to see what would be deleted. I am intending to use rsync to replace rdist in an disaster recovery suite for several major banks and need to be able to provide the same details of what files were deleted as at present. [128](samx@Edelfelt)~samx: uname -a SunOS Edelfelt 5.8 Generic_108528-18 sun4u sparc SUNW,UltraSPARC-IIi-cEngine rsync version 2.5.6 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,...

...t I could document symptoms and cures, but after copying /etc/passwd and /etc/shadow again (so that both sides had the same password), everything worked fine - even after restarting the rsync daemon and later rebooting! The situation now (passwords truncated of course) is: Edelfelt Tazdevil rsync.passwd A B rsync.secrets root:B root:A The actual root password on both machines is now A and transfers work in both directions - which doesn't seem right to me! I'd appreciate any explanation - g...