rsync not doinf its jub updating
 

this is the command i use to update:
rsync -rvu --stats --progress --force carroll.cac.psu.edu::slackware/slackware-current/source/* /spare/source/

but when it upfates it doesn't grab the new .Slackbuild or the slack-desc. So what am I doing wrong?

Is your machine ahead of time?


Cheers,
Tink

Maybe add -a option to rsync

Not sure, but I think you can ditch the "*".

On a somewhat related note, this is the rysync script that I use in /etc/cron.daily:

This works perfectly for me. You can use a variant to do what you would like.

shilo your the man.
On a side note what do you mean ahead of time? I plan on having it last through college and then some. So thats 5+ years.

shilo u used your script but pointed it to the /source folder and it still doesn't update the slack-desc and the .Slackbuild. Is that because they have the same name?

I don't understand the question. I know that I have slack-desc and .Slackbuild files. What is the problem you are having?

the first time i run it it gets all the files, including the .Slackbuild and the slack-desc. But when Pat updates lets say groff to 1.19.1 (only because it was the first on the changelog) the slack-desc and the .Slackbuild still are for the old version, even thou on the server it is current on the server. So I end up getting them manually.

Bird,

Tinkster was asking if your machine's 'date' setting is perhaps ahead of the server's. If so, the files on your hard drive will always appear newer, hence rsync will not grab them.

--Shade

unless there server isn't synced with time.gov then were close enough.