On 5/11/07, Patrick Shanahan <ptilopteri@gmail.com> wrote:

* James D. Parra <Jamesp@MusicReports.com> [05-10-07 20:22]:

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I am getting 'skipping non-regular file' errors when running rsync. Any ideas on why and how to fix them?

Using rsync -rpvougt .....

skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/unixODBC-2.2.11/samples/helper.o" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/unixODBC-2.2.11/sqp/.libs/libsqplc.la" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/wxwidgets/wxBase-2.6.2/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so" skipping non-regular file "rd/programs/wxwidgets/wxBase-2.6.2/lib/libwx_baseu-2.6.so.0"

I guess, when in doubt check the doc's. The FIRST step when you have a problem.

From TFM:

SYMBOLIC LINKS Three basic behaviors are possible when rsync encounters a symbolic link in the source directory.

By default, symbolic links are not transferred at all. A message "skipping non-regular" file is emitted for any symlinks that exist.

There are other issues that cause the same error. In my case I get them because I have several "sockets" that are in my /home directory structure (all from beagle I think) that I rsync to a backup each night. You can get an idea of what your issue is by doing a "ls -l" on the offending files. If there not symbolic links, look at the first character of the ls output and see what kind of file it is. If the first char is a "s", then you have sockets as well. All the possible values are documented in "info ls", but not in the man page. I have not verified if rsync can handle sockets or not. I'm basically just assuming that sockets in my /home directory structure are not critical to my backup. Greg -- Greg Freemyer The Norcross Group Forensics for the 21st Century -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: opensuse+unsubscribe@opensuse.org For additional commands, e-mail: opensuse+help@opensuse.org