Re: psync, sym links, and Panther Revisited

2004-03-30 Thread Bill Metzinger
On Mar 29, 2004, at 11:36 PM, WC -Sx- Jones wrote: If you *are* backing-up your system - please see this first and avoid data loss. I mean Perl is great - no doubt. Sometimes system utils are needed: http://www.oreillynet.com/cs/user/view/cs_msg/4644 Well thanks I think. Your article's main

psync, sym links, and Panther Revisited

2004-03-29 Thread Bill Metzinger
I finally got back to a Jaguar system to verify that this used to work. Symbolic links copied by psync on Panther seem to be copied incorrectly. Psync is never satisfied and wants to copy them on each sync. In Jaguar it worked as expected. Can anyone shed light on this or at least try it on their

Re: psync, sym links, and Panther Revisited

2004-03-29 Thread WC -Sx- Jones
Bill Metzinger wrote: I finally got back to a Jaguar system to verify that this used to work. ... On Jaguar systems, running psync twice says there are zero items to copy. Thank you for your help. If you *are* backing-up your system - please see this first and avoid data loss. I mean Perl is