[Pan-users] Re: Pan and rsync

[Duncan]

Joe Zeff posted on Thu, 05 Aug 2010 14:02:39 -0400 as excerpted:

> Right now, I'm at NASFIC, in Raleigh, NC.  Last night, I used rsync to
> update the copy of Pan on my laptop.  I used rsync -av, but didn't see
> newsrc in the list of files updated.  Checking, the two copies didn't
> match, so I corrected it by ftp.  Maybe this is the reason it didn't
> work right before.

That could be it.

As to why... quoting from the manpage, "Rsync  finds  files  that need to 
be transferred using a "quick check" algorithm (by default) that looks for 
files that have changed in size or in last-modified time."  Was the size 
the same?  The mod-time shouldn't have been, if they were different, but...

You can try the -c (--checksum) option too, but if you have lots of files 
to check, it'll be significantly slower due to the need to checksum them 
all on both sides.

The other possibility I can think of is that ACLs (do you run SELinux, 
Fedora does I believe, no idea on others) or other perms issues might have 
prevented it, for some reason.  I'd especially consider SELinux/ACLs if 
they apply on your system, as it's quite possible that the distribution 
default rsyncd ACLs are somewhat restricted (default to safe, people can 
open it up further if necessary), on the assumption people may be using it 
as a public rsync server.

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