Hi; an addendum; On Sun, 2007-06-17 at 09:07 -0400, William Case wrote: > Hi; > > I have the following directory in my user home directory: > [root@CASE ~]# ls -al /home/bill/.dbus > total 24 > drwx------ 3 root root 4096 2006-11-30 22:33 . > drwxr-xr-x 71 bill bill 4096 2007-06-17 08:38 .. > drwx------ 2 root root 4096 2007-06-09 14:18 session-bus > > Is that .dbus directory supposed to be there? Is it likely I copied it > to ~/ some time ago by accident? Can I remove it? If I can't remove it (it seems connected to SELinux in some way) why won't the following work ? [bill@CASE ~]$rsync -auH --del --filter=-/home/bill/.dbus -n /home/bill/ /backup/bill/ invalid modifier sequence at 'h' in filter rule: -/home/bill/.dbus rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at exclude.c(777) [client=2.6.9] -- Regards Bill Using Fedora 7