rsyc log weirdness
Dan Lund
situationalawareness at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 20:42:40 MST 2007
This also might sound stupid, but have you checked the tzconfig on
each machine to make sure the timezone's in Linux are set the same?
--Dan
On 6/26/07, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:
> Brought each box down to BIOS and confirmed the BIOS date/time is set to
> MST on both.
>
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> 623-203-1760
>
>
>
>
> Dazed_75 wrote:
> > ok, so it still sounds like maybe one machine has the BIOS clock set to
> > local time and the other set to Universal. Both boxes still have local
> > time available in Linux but one of them is correcting the system clock
> > and the other does not need to. I only mentioned dual booting windows
> > because that is the most common way the BIOS clock stays as local time.
> > Anyway, I still suggest that COULD be the BASIS for your problem. It
> > even be that the two kinds of reports use a different system call to get
> > the time resulting in the apparent difference.
> >
> > On 6/24/07, *George Toft* <george at georgetoft.com
> > <mailto:george at georgetoft.com>> wrote:
> >
> > Good thought! However, both systems were built the same, and have the
> > same error messages depending on who is rsync'ing to whom.
> >
> > More details:
> > These two servers are in a failover, high-availability cluster, and I
> > use rsync to keep the file systems in sync. rsync syncs from the active
> > node to the passive node. (I would have preferred GFS or SAN, but that
> > was outside of the budget.)
> >
> >
> > So - whether it's server1 sync'ing to server2, or the other way around,
> > the log entries look the same.
> >
> > George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> > 623-203-1760
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Dazed_75 wrote:
> > >
> > >
> > > On 6/24/07, *George Toft* <george at georgetoft.com
> > <mailto:george at georgetoft.com>
> > > <mailto:george at georgetoft.com <mailto:george at georgetoft.com>>> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have an rsync cronjob that syncs up a couple of
> > directories. It works
> > > fine. The problem is the logs are a combination of MST and UDT:
> > >
> > > Jun 24 09:22:01 server2 rsyncd[4670]: rsync to www/ from
> > > root at server1-rsync (10.0.3.1 <http://10.0.3.1> <http://10.0.3.1>)
> > > Jun 24 16:22:01 server2 rsyncd[4670]: skipping non-regular file
> > > "html/ssl/php/index.php"
> > > Jun 24 16:22:01 server2 rsyncd[4670]: skipping non-regular file
> > > "virtual/example.com/html/ssl/php/index.php"
> > > Jun 24 16:22:01 server2 rsyncd[4670]: wrote 69 bytes read
> > 206942 bytes
> > > total size 1556092271
> > > Jun 24 09:22:01 server2 rsyncd[4672]: rsync to share/ from
> > > root at tos1-rsync (10.0.3.1 <http://10.0.3.1> <http://10.0.3.1
> > <http://10.0.3.1>> )
> > > Jun 24 16:22:01 server2 rsyncd[4672]: wrote 69 bytes read
> > 123 bytes
> > > total size 0
> > >
> > > I would like to unify the timestamps to MST. Anyone know how
> > to do that
> > > (didn't see anything in the man page)?
> > >
> > >
> > > Hopefully this is not a stupid response. I notice that the messages
> > > showing a different clock both state explicitly being from
> > root at xxxxxxxx
> > > (10.0.3.1 <http://10.0.3.1> <http://10.0.3.1>) although the
> > other messages do not. Is it
> > > possible that one of the machines being rsync'd has its system
> > clock set
> > > to UDT and the other does not (such as a machine that also dual
> > boots
> > > Windows)?
> > >
> > > Side note - anyone know how to sync a symlink? Yes, I know
> > it can be
> > > bad on systems that do not have the same file structure, but
> > these are
> > > virtually identical boxes, and I want to be stupid.
> > > --
> > > George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> > > 623-203-1760
> > >
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