rsyc log weirdness

[George Toft]

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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