Ok, the easiest is to use rsync like an ls command and navigate to the directory you want if you do not know the path up front:
e.g., "rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no/" will list all the top level modules (directories) available. Note the last "/" and no target directory - without this nothing is printed! Next add the directory you next want to list: "rsync rsync://ftp.uninett.no/Mandrake/" and so on until you build the path and locate the file(s) you want. To download the whole 8.1 updates (mirror the updates), use "rsync -Pcavub --bwlimit=3 --stats --exclude=kernel22\* --exclude=kernel-enterprise\* --exclude=kernel-smp\* --exclude=kernel-linus\* --exclude=kernel-pcmcia-cs\* --delete-excluded --delete rsync://ftp.uninett.no/Mandrake/Mandrake/updates/8.1/RPMS/\* ." Note that I had to escape the wildcard - rsync gives the usual unix (un)informative error otherwise. Kernels I do manually so I dont accidentally destroy the system, the bwlimit is coz I use a modem and it leaves some bandwidth for use whilst the command is running. I cron it at 1:05am local. For iso's, its basicly the same,just runs for 3 or so days per cd! On Fri, 2002-02-22 at 22:16, Randy Kramer wrote: > Brandon, > > Thanks for your comment! Yes, my explanation is not very clear, > partially because I don't understand that point very well myself. > Part of the issue is that the directory must be specified relative to > something. I think it is relative to something like the rsync working > directory, which may be different than the ftp working directory. Thus > the path you specify in an rsync command may need to be different than > the path specified in an ftp command. (And I may be all wrong about > this -- I was very confused at the time, and, clearly, still am.) > > If I had to take a flying leap at this point in time, I'd try deleting > "/pub" from the path in your command -- that seems to be what I had to > do at the carroll.cac.psu.edu site. >
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