On Thu 24 Jan 2008, Matt McCutchen wrote: > > is it possible to change those error messages into a standard pattern? > > Yes, it would be possible, but it would require going through and > reformatting each of the 77 FERROR_XFER messages individually and would > make a few of them less readable (e.g., "link A => B failed" would > become "B: link from A failed"). Another option would be to print an > additional "failed to propagate B" message after a failure of any kind > on file B, and your script could just match those messages.
Another approach is to prepend each error message with some type of code, e.g. "link A => B failed" becomes "E0023: link A => B failed" I remember from my days working with AIX that every tool did that, and while it looks a bit cluttered, it's a lot simpler to search the docs for the error code. And processing / detecting errors by scripts becomes very simple. Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html