rsyc log weirdness

Dan Lund situationalawareness at gmail.com
Wed Jun 27 19:50:41 MST 2007


Maybe I should ask what options your passing, because it looks from
the original email that your problem might be options?  I re-read it
and cant really see the problem other than it thinking that an
index.php is an irregular file.


On 6/27/07, George Toft <george at georgetoft.com> wrote:
> Good thought!!!  Checked - MST on both.
>
> George Toft, CISSP, MSIS
> 623-203-1760
>
>
>
>
> Dan Lund wrote:
> > 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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