From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Mar 25 8: 9:45 2003 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9999A37B401 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:09:41 -0800 (PST) Received: from zoon.lafn.org (zoon.lafn.org [206.117.18.9]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id F402E43FBD for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:09:40 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Received: from lafn.org (host-66-81-179-251.rev.o1.com [66.81.179.251]) by zoon.lafn.org (8.12.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id h2PG9dXg074707 for ; Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:09:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from bc979@lafn.org) Date: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 08:09:39 -0800 Subject: Re: [OT] file synchronization between two machines Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v551) From: Doug Hardie To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In-Reply-To: <20030325160102.GA2618@keyslapper.org> Message-Id: <2EA25D5A-5EDC-11D7-8A48-000393681B06@lafn.org> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.551) X-Spam-Status: No, hits=-20.9 required=5.0 tests=EMAIL_ATTRIBUTION,FROM_ENDS_IN_NUMS,IN_REP_TO, QUOTED_EMAIL_TEXT,REPLY_WITH_QUOTES,USER_AGENT_APPLEMAIL autolearn=ham version=2.50 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.50 (1.173-2003-02-20-exp) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tuesday, Mar 25, 2003, at 08:01 US/Pacific, Louis LeBlanc wrote: > Hey all. Sorry for the OT question, but here goes. > > Anyone know of a tool or method that can check the last modification > date of two files under these conditions and keep them in sync? I've never tried this, but you might give rsync with the -u option a try (test it first on unimportant files). I believe you would need to run it on both machines as it would only update in one direction. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message