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Author: George Toft
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Subject: Re: rsyc log weirdness
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 <> 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* <
>>><mailto:george@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* <
>>>    <mailto:george@georgetoft.com>
>>>     > <mailto:george@georgetoft.com <mailto:george@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@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@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@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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