At 10:27 AM -0400 6/17/07, William Case wrote: >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] According to the rsync man page, you need a " " or "_" between the rule and path. A "_" may be easier than quoting the argument. $rsync -auH --del --filter=-_/home/bill/.dbus -n /home/bill/ /backup/bill/ -- ____________________________________________________________________ TonyN.:' <mailto:tonynelson@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> ' <http://www.georgeanelson.com/>
