Joe Zeff posted on Sat, 27 Aug 2011 10:53:01 -0700 as excerpted: > On 08/27/2011 01:05 AM, Duncan wrote: >> I don't know for sure, but I can GUESS: If you indeed used ~/ for >> /home/username/ in both cases, as the (part that I can make out of >> the) above indicates, that might have been the mistake, since the shell >> (on the machine you're running the rsync command from) expands that >> itself -- >> to the local value. > > First, everything else seems to sync OK and second, I have the same > username on both machines so that's not an issue.
But was the shell you ran the rsync from that same user? Because that's what's where the ~ gets substituted -- all rsync sees is the substitution fed it by the shell, and if you were running the shell as a different user (for instance, root) when you did the rsync, that user's home (say /root if it was a root shell you ran the rsync from) is what would have been substituted. It's the same way as with ls *. It's the shell that does the substitution for *, so ls simply gets a list of filenames from the shell and lists them -- ls never sees "*" at all, but a list of filenames, and rsync never sees ~/ at all, but the homedir of the user running the shell that rsync is from from. Or if you ran it directly, (not from a shell but from say a run dialog), then (I believe) rsync would have seen the ~/ and treated it literally, no substitution on rsync's part. -- Duncan - List replies preferred. No HTML msgs. "Every nonfree program has a lord, a master -- and if you use the program, he is your master." Richard Stallman _______________________________________________ Pan-users mailing list Pan-users@nongnu.org https://lists.nongnu.org/mailman/listinfo/pan-users
