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 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* > > 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* > > > > >> 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@server1-rsync (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@tos1-rsync (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@xxxxxxxx > > > (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 > > > > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > > > > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > < http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > -- > > > Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't > > > matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss > > > > > > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > > > > > > > > > > -- > > Be who you are and say what you feel, because those who mind don't > > matter and those who matter don't mind. - Dr. Seuss > > > > > > ------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > > > --------------------------------------------------- > > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > -- "Courage is like love; it must have hope to nourish it." -Napoleon Bonaparte --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss