On Thu, 2005-12-22 at 20:27 +0000, Jon Peatfield wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Connie Sieh wrote:
> 
> > Jon,
> >
> > It was indeed set at 4,  increased it .
> >
> > Thanks for reporting this issue.
> 
> Great.
> 
> A few mins ago I switched to try the 
> rsync://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.scientificlinux.org/linux/scientific/ 
> mirror (it notionally being closer I thought it might be useful), but 
> fetching from it resulted in it deleting a bunch of files (.rpmmacros etc) 
> and updating rather a lot of files.  I killed it after 124 of them had 
> been changed:
Always, always run a manual rsync with  -n  first,
or in a script when you are testing it. 
And --max-delete=2   (or another small integer) helps prevent it going
wild and eating all of your files.