Re: rsync -u and --ignore-existing options don't work

From: raver (barbara_ries_at_hotmail.com)
Date: 11/10/03

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    Date: 10 Nov 2003 09:44:36 -0800

    Bill Marcum <bmarcum@iglou.com> wrote in message news:<k39o71-mhl.ln1@don.localnet>...
    > ["Followup-To:" header set to comp.unix.admin.]
    > On 5 Nov 2003 12:44:56 -0800, raver
    > <barbara_ries@hotmail.com> wrote:
    > > rsync serv: aix 4.3.3 ML11
    > > client I am testing with: aix 4.3.3 ML11
    > >
    > > I have an rsync server supplying files for the /usr/local
    > > directory structure. When a client runs rsync it pulls over
    > > several /usr/local directories and links are created in
    > > /usr/local/bin to where the binaries actually reside.
    > >
    > > Occasiionally, I want to drop a binary in /usr/local/bin
    > > and not have rsync write over it with a link to the rsync
    > > distribution. For example, I dropped a newer gzip binary
    > > in /usr/local/bin and thought because the client ran rsync
    > > with the -u option, it would not write over the newer binary,
    > > but it did - and it re-created the symlink over to the rsync
    > > distribution binary.
    > >
    > "rsync -u" is not supposed to overwrite a destination file that is newer
    > than the source. Does your "newer" gzip perhaps have an earlier
    > timestamp than the "older" version (compiled from older source code)?
    > Or perhaps one of the systems has a clock that is way off?

    The date on the system is accurate.
    Here is the process I am going through to test this:

    This is the current gzip on the system
    /usr/local/bin/gzip -> ../gnu/gzip-1.2.4/bin/gzip

    Here is the timestamp on that file:
    >ls -la ../gnu/gzip-1.2.4/bin/gzip
    <snip> Mar 06 2001 ../gnu/gzip-1.2.4/bin/gzip

    Then I remove the gzip link in /usr/local/bin and drop
    in the new binary.
    >ls -lad gzip*
    <snip> Nov 10 10:36 gzip

    The next time rsync runs it recreates the link over to
    ../gnu/gzip-1.2.4/bin/gzip

    Here is the rsync command I am using to pull the files:
    rsync -rlogputv --log-format "%o %f %l" <server>::Aix43/${dir} /usr/local

    I should have included the above command in my first post.
    Thanks!
    -bries

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