<div dir="ltr">The answer: I fixed the bug by . . . . . . removing " --delete" from line 4 of the script. Now I have the problem that, if a file has been synced, you cannot delete it. It reappears at the next sync. What I want to happen is to go through each user in /home and see which version is most recent (the one on server1 or the one on server2). Then I want to only rsync from most recent to older, with the "--delete" option to remove files that were deleted recently. I can imagine having a script (running on server2) that does a local "ls -l /home" and a "ssh server2.ltsp ls -l /home" and compares the modification times and then does the rsync in the appropriate direction for each user's directory. Can anyone think of a more elegant solution? <div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Oct 12, 2008 at 2:03 PM, Stephen Crampton <<a href="mailto:SteveSings@gmail.com">SteveSings@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;"><div dir="ltr">At bottom is a script I wrote to sync the files between two K12LTSP servers. server1 is <a href="http://192.168.0.254/" target="_blank">192.168.0.254</a> and server2 is <a href="http://192.168.0.253/" target="_blank">192.168.0.253</a>. I put the script in /etc/cron.hourly. It seems to work, except the log files are not created unless I run the script manually (as root). I would appreciate any comments/corrections. Thanks! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- <div dir="ltr"> #!/bin/bash LOGFILE="/var/log/rsync.log" ERRFILE="/var/log/rsync.errors" RSYNCCMD="rsync -ahtuvz -e ssh --delete" RSYNC="nice "$RSYNCCMD DATE=`date` ps aux | grep -e "$RSYNCCMD" | grep -v grep && echo "We appear to be already running." && sleep 2 && exit -1 echo "" >>$LOGFILE echo "***********************************************************" >>$LOGFILE echo "rsync $DATE" >>$LOGFILE echo "vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv" >>$LOGFILE echo "" >>$LOGFILE echo "" >>$ERRFILE echo "***********************************************************" >>$ERRFILE echo "rsync $DATE" >>$ERRFILE echo "vvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvvv" >>$ERRFILE echo "" >>$ERRFILE # $RSYNC server1.ltsp::home /home 1>>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRFILE # $RSYNC /home/ server1.ltsp::home 1>>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRFILE # $RSYNC server1.ltsp::html /var/www/html 1>>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRFILE # $RSYNC /var/www/html/ server1.ltsp::html 1>>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRFILE # $RSYNC server1.ltsp::'etc/passwd etc/shadow etc/group etc/gshadow etc/default/useradd etc/skel etc/login.defs etc/desktop-profiles' /etc 1>>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRFILE # $RSYNC /etc/passwd /etc/shadow /etc/group /etc/gshadow /etc/default/useradd /etc/skel /etc/login.defs /etc/desktop-profiles server1.ltsp::etc 1>>$LOGFILE 2>>$ERRFILE echo "" >>$LOGFILE echo "^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^" >>$LOGFILE echo "rsync $DATE" >>$LOGFILE echo "***********************************************************" >>$LOGFILE echo "" >>$ERRFILE echo "^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^" >>$ERRFILE echo "rsync $DATE" >>$ERRFILE echo "***********************************************************" >>$ERRFILE LOCKS='/tmp/gconfd-* /tmp/mapping-* /tmp/orbit-*' rm -rf $LOCKS ssh server1.ltsp rm -rf $LOCKS exit 0 </div></div> </blockquote></div> </div>