On Mon, 2003-08-18 at 15:41, Robert G. Brown wrote: > Dear Peter, > > I finally got to where I could do a little testing, and think you'll be > perfectly happy if you just change -vv to -v. If it still shows files > being "transferred" but no data at the same time, try eliminating the > "--partial" argument and see what happens. Either it suddenly will > start taking hours for the transfer (retransferring them entirely) or it > will shut up and soldier. The behavior you're seeing is exactly as if a Here's what I did: I removed the --partial switch from my RH62 updates transfer. I haven't been using the -z switch with ftp.funet.fi at all, so it can't be the problem. Here's the result: http://www.iki.fi/peter.peltonen/linux/tue2.txt if you compare it to http://www.iki.fi/peter.peltonen/linux/tue2.txt you can see that nothing changed :( And it seems to be always the same files that are "uptodate" and that are not... For reference, here is the RH62 script I used: --<snip>-- #!/bin/bash MIRRORDIR=/scratch/mirror VERBOSE=1 MIRROR=ftp.funet.fi REMOTE="$MIRROR::ftp/pub/mirrors/ftp.redhat.com/pub/redhat/linux/updates/6.2/en/os/" LOCAL="$MIRRORDIR/redhat/linux/updates/6.2/en/os/" if [ ! -z $VERBOSE ]; then VRB="-vv --stats" fi echo "Fetching RH62 updates at `date`." rsync $VRB -a --exclude "SRPMS" --exclude "alpha" --exclude "sparc*" \ --delete $REMOTE $LOCAL echo "Fetched RH62 updates at `date`." echo " " --</snip>-- Regards, -- Peter Peltonen <peter.peltonen@xxxxxx> -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: not available Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 189 bytes Desc: This is a digitally signed message part Url : http://lists.dulug.duke.edu/pipermail/yum/attachments/20030819/d33aef1f/attachment.bin