On Wed, Jun 03, 2009 at 01:18:36PM -0700, Scott Haneda wrote: > > > >Thanks Scott! Being a fairly recent Mac user (moving from Gentoo), > >this looks like it will work out just perfectly. Consider anacron to > >be > >off this machine soon. > > I did not mean to bash anacron, I am sure it is great software. For > your needs, launchd should give you more granular control. > Nor did I. The 3 things I have used anacron for can all be done using launchd. I've always preferred native utilities if they can serve my needs. Time to learn something new. > > Launchd supports setting users and groups, also supports logging to a > specific file, as well as setting a working directory so you do nothave > to fight with really long paths and paths with spaces in themwithin the > file. > > One think about Lingon, which I reco'd to you, is it will in factescape > the spaces in a file path, which my experience, and those onthe launchd > mailing list, state to not do. > Thanks, I'm sure these things will come in handy as I learn more of it's capabilities. > > Yes, I think the single most important flag is: > -E, --extended-attributes copy extended attributes,resource > forks
from man rsync... -E, --executability preserve executability -X, --xattrs preserve extended attributes fes...@magpie ~ $ rsync --version rsync version 3.0.6 protocol version 30 What version of rsync are you running? > This is very easy to test. I am not sure what software you use, so I > will list a few. Interarchy bookmarks, those will break if you losethe > extended attributes, Quark files, not that I use them, but I havebroken > them. Ahh, what the heck, a .webloc is a forked file. Drag aurl out of > safari onto your desktop, it will make a .webloc file. Runyour rsync, > and see if that .webloc can open the url again, if it can,chances are > pretty good you are doing the right thing. > > Grab a few random files and do: > md5 /path to original > md5 /path to copy > > If those md5's match up, you also know you are doing pretty good. > Hope that was of some help, good luck with your scripts. I'll investigate this later. Thanks, festus -- I just want to break even.
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