Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-18 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Les, Wednesday, December 17, 2014, 3:54:36 PM, you wrote: LM> if the NAS offers nfs It does, but I'm waiting for an answer from Zyxel as to why the data rate is limited to about 3.5Mb/s as opposed to 60-70Mb/s to a CIFS share -- Best regards, Niamhmailto:ni..

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-17 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Stuart, Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 9:33:29 PM, you wrote: SB> If this is a CIFS or other DOSish filesystem you may also need --no-o SB> --no-p and/or --no-g to ignore other file attributes. Looks like this may be the case to solve that problem. -- Best regards, Niamh

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-17 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Kahlil, Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 11:19:11 PM, you wrote: KH> ​Indeed: the sequence of dots and letters before the name indicates why KH> rsync wants to update a file. Ah, not time but owner and group are different, and not being changed on the NAS. Is this a CIFS "thing"? -- Best reg

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-16 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Les, Tuesday, December 16, 2014, 4:09:43 PM, you wrote: LM> What happens if you use --modify-window=3601 to allow up to an hour of LM> difference? Your NAS may have windows-like behavior in terms of LM> storing timestamps in local time and fudging them for DST. Exactly the same :( --stat

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-16 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Kahlil, Monday, December 15, 2014, 11:25:35 PM, you wrote: KH> When you use --itemize-changes, does it indicate that the timestamps of the KH> directories have changed? Not uless the sequence of dots and letters before the folder name indicates that -- Best regards, Niamh

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-15 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Elias, Monday, December 15, 2014, 4:13:20 PM, you wrote: EP> Sounds like it might be differences in precision of the timestamp. Could be, thoght the NAS box has the sending system as it's NTP server so their times should be in sync. EP> Check out the `--modify-window` option. Doesn't see

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-15 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Les, Sunday, December 14, 2014, 7:18:09 PM, you wrote: LM> Folders should only be listed if timestamps or permissions are different. Further experimentation shows this to be the case IF the destination is another local drive. Unfortunately the required destination is a CIFS share, which m

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-15 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Keith, Sunday, December 14, 2014, 6:31:20 PM, you wrote: KK> That must have been a very long time ago, as rsync has been silent for KK> as long as I can remember (even back to CentOS 5 and possibly even 4). I think we're going back to rsync 2.6.x for this very useful summary. -- Best reg

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-15 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Kahlil, Sunday, December 14, 2014, 8:54:45 PM, you wrote: KH> -i, --itemize-changes output a change-summary for all updates Lists every file here -- Best regards, Niamhmailto:ni...@fullbore.co.uk pgpJGlzxqhA5z.pgp Description: PGP signature ___

Re: [CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-14 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Keith, Sunday, December 14, 2014, 6:31:20 PM, you wrote: KK> Anyway, you want some combination of the -v and --progress switches. KK> Try each separately, and both together, and see which you like best. Neither! Both switches list the folders being checked even if the contents are unchang

[CentOS] rsync output under CentOS 6

2014-12-14 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello, Many years ago, FC4 days, the following command run as a cron job would result in a nice summary email as follows /usr/bin/rsync -a --no-whole-file --delete /music /thecus-music/ -- building file list ... done sent 351583 bytes received 20 byt

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5- mount shows a cifs share mounted 4 times!

2014-12-11 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Gordon, Thursday, December 11, 2014, 6:46:00 PM, you wrote: GM> Specify the local path rather than the source: GM> $ umount /NSA320-music Well well! I'm sure I’ve always unmouted the mount and not the mount point before... mind I think this is the first time I've tried to unmount a remot

Re: [CentOS] CentOS 5- mount shows a cifs share mounted 4 times!

2014-12-11 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello Gordon, Thursday, December 11, 2014, 5:23:56 PM, you wrote: GM> The system will mount a GM> filesytem on top of an existing path, including one with another GM> filesystem at the same path. But the mounts are identical- 10.0.0.253\\niamh on /NSA320-music type cifs (rw) 10.0.0.2

[CentOS] CentOS 5- mount shows a cifs share mounted 4 times!

2014-12-11 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello, How can this happen? mount -l /dev/sda3/ on type ext4 (rw) proc on /proc type proc (rw) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,gid=5,mode=620) tmpfs on /dev/shm type tmpfs (rw) /dev/sda1 on /boot type ext4 (rw) /dev/sdb1 on /music type ext3 (rw) /dev/mapper/VolGr

Re: [CentOS] Yum installed perl on CentOS 5.11 64 bit

2014-11-24 Thread Niamh Holding
Hello John, Monday, November 24, 2014, 10:47:23 AM, you wrote: JD> It says "set to be updated", so the i386 version was already installed... no? No- [root@nitrogen ~]# yum list installed | grep -i "perl\." mod_perl.x86_64 2.0.4-6.el5 installed newt-pe

[CentOS] Yum installed perl on CentOS 5.11 64 bit

2014-11-23 Thread Niamh Holding
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello Centos, Is 4:perl-5.8.8-43.el5_11.x86_64 really dependent on the 32 bit perl.i386 4:5.8.8-43.el5_11 as yum is suggesting, or has something got mixed up on the system? yum install perl Loaded plugins: fastestmirror Loading mirror speeds from c