On Wed, 2004-01-21 at 14:34, dalen wrote: > Mike, > I would delete the mkdir lines as they only need to be run once, > while the rsync lines need to run often. If you run mkdir twice it > gives a similar error... > > [root@viewlib root]# mkdir /root/m > [root@viewlib root]# mkdir /root/m > mkdir: cannot create directory `/root/m': File exists > [root@viewlib root]# > > You could also wrap a mkdir command in some "if dir doesn't exist" code. "mkdir -p" will work well here - creates parent directories if they don't exist, no error if they do. Cheers, Ben
