[TriLUG] symbolic links and rsync

[Paul McLanahan]

Are you using -l in your rsync script (it's implied in -a)? That
should preserve links as links.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 9:44 AM, James Tuttle <jjtuttle at trilug.org> wrote:
>  However, in addition to my desktop, I have a Solaris zone on which I
>  keep a bunch of scripts.  So, in the home directory of my desktop I
>  created a mount point and mount the scripts directory on my zone via
>  Samba.  That works fine until I run the rsync process from my laptop.
>  It seems that the symbolic link gets overwritten with a static directory
>  and any changes to scripts in that directory no longer propagate to the
>  zone.