Cheers for this,
this is very similar to something I've been planning to do for ages.
Unfortuantly I'm not in a permission to play games with the kernel at the
moment (still on 2.0.x for stability), so I need to be able to signal these
changes thru a different mechanism from /proc/
I'll look into your code and see if I can use the work you've done in a
slightly more general interface, maybe a socket. This would allow similar
functionality for non-linux systems as well.
Seeya
Shez
On Thu, 06 Jul 2000, Rief, Jacob wrote:
>Hi,
>I had the same problem with rdist and could not find
>any way how to do it through configuration or the
>commandline. Therefore I patched rsync. You may
>download a patched version from http://195.96.23.199/rsync/
>Unfortunately neither Paul nor Andrew showed any
>interrest for this patch, I am still waiting for any
>reply.
>Jacob
>
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Shez [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>> Sent: Monday, July 03, 2000 8:50 PM
>> To: Multiple recipients of list RSYNC
>> Subject: Using rsync to delete a single file
>>
>>
>> Hi there,
>> I've been using rsync for propagating updates to a web
>> farm for a while
>> now. The model I took was to parse the ftp logs for accounts
>> that were being
>> updated and trigger an rsync on the whole home directory.
>> This has been
>> effective and reliable, but not as CPU, I/O and memory
>> efficient as it could
>> be, especially on home directories with a very large number of files.
>>
>> In an attempt to reduce these resource usage problems I want
>> to rsync only the
>> particular file that has been updated, rather than the whole
>> directory. With
>> modified and new files this is easy, but I can't work out how
>> to get rsync to
>> delete a single file - is this possible? I know I could use
>> ssh to do this,
>> but its a bit irritating to have to insert a special case for
>> deletions.
>>
>> Can anybody help me with something I've missed?
>> Cheers
>> Shez
>>
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