On Mon, Jan 06, 2003 at 08:36:35AM -0700, David Garamond wrote:
> John Van Essen wrote:
> >Dave,
> >
> >What you need is the --force option. It's not obvious from the
> >all-too-generic name, but that will do the trick.
> >
> >To the rsync maintainers - this is somewhat of an FAQ. Perhaps
> >the error message could also say '(see the --force option)' to
> >help users discover the solution more easily.
>
> thanks john, that solved the problem. i should've perhaps looked at the
> manpage twice. the manpage (2.5.5) already states this quite clearly:
>
> --force force deletion of directories even if not empty
>
> however, i personally think --force should be the default as it is more
> common, or shouldn't it?
Could you please post your full command line and say where in the directory
structure the directories were replaced by symlinks? I have not yet been
able to come up with an example where --force makes a difference when
using --delete and -r (or -a). Refer to
http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2002-January/005971.html
- Dave Dykstra
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