<div dir="ltr"><br>Never mind. I'm stupid.<div><br></div><div>The script line setting ownership of the repositories to a known state needs to execute from /media/8TB, or it needs to specify /media/8TB/* :</div><div><br></div><div>chown -R charles:charles /media/8TB/*</div><div><br></div><div>I've been executing the script from /home/charles (user home directory) rather than from /media/8TB, so the error message is telling me that /home/charles has no files for which changing ownership is valid. The directory /home/charles indeed has NO files, so the error is indeed valid.</div><div><br></div><div>Charlie</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">---------- Forwarded message ---------<br>From: <strong class="gmail_sendername" dir="auto">Charles Chambers</strong> <span dir="auto"><<a href="mailto:cchamb2@gmail.com">cchamb2@gmail.com</a>></span><br>Date: Thu, Mar 19, 2020 at 5:15 AM<br>Subject: Re: Mirror issues?<br>To: Thomas Ward <<a href="mailto:teward@ubuntu.com">teward@ubuntu.com</a>><br>Cc: <<a href="mailto:ubuntu-mirrors@lists.ubuntu.com">ubuntu-mirrors@lists.ubuntu.com</a>><br></div><br><br><div dir="ltr">Here's the script at this point. I have two of them (one for cdimages, one for packages), but they both work the same.<div><br></div><div><br><div><br></div><div>==================</div><div><br></div><div>while [ 1 ]<br><br>do<br><br>#Download archives<br># rsync -a --progress --delete rsync://<a href="http://ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu" target="_blank">ubuntu.cs.utah.edu/ubuntu</a> /media/8TB/ubuntu-mirror<br># rsync -a --progress --delete rsync://<a href="http://mirrors.syringanetworks.net/ubuntu-archive" target="_blank">mirrors.syringanetworks.net/ubuntu-archive</a> /media/8TB/ubuntu-mirror<br> rsync -a --progress --delete rsync://<a href="http://mirror.arizona.edu/ubuntu" target="_blank">mirror.arizona.edu/ubuntu</a> /media/8TB/ubuntu-mirror<br> chown -R charles:charles *</div><div><br># Download ISO<br># rsync -a --progress --delete rsync://<a href="http://cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage" target="_blank">cdimage.ubuntu.com/cdimage</a> /media/8TB/ubuntu-cdimage<br># chown -R charles:charles *<br># Check for errors/abends<br><br> if [ "$?" = "0" ] ; then<br> echo "rsync completed normally"<br> exit<br> else<br> echo "rsync failure. Retrying..."<br> sleep 600<br> fi<br><br>done<br></div><div><br></div><div>================</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Tue, Mar 17, 2020 at 4:03 PM Thomas Ward <<a href="mailto:teward@ubuntu.com" target="_blank">teward@ubuntu.com</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<p>What specific RSync command are you using? When you use `*` it
might cause issues, or if the filename is named `*` you're trying
to rsync it will not work right either. Details about what
command you're using **exactly** would be helpful.</p>
<p>If you need it, I can bundle up my mirror sync scripts (I have
one for cdimage and one for packages) and share them with you if
you think that'd be helpful.</p>
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<p>Thomas</p>
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<div>On 3/17/20 8:49 AM, Charles Chambers
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<pre>I may or may not be having an issue with my connection.
I mirror both the cdimages as well as packages.
On both, rsync is failing, with the error message showing of:
chown: cannot access ‘*’: No such file or directory
rsync failure. Retrying...
And nothing further happens.
Control C on the session, restart it, and the same outcome.
It's been in place for a few months while I figure out how to get a
static IP and go public.
Do I need to change anything?
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</blockquote></div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr">Charlie<br><a href="mailto:cchamb2@gmail.com" target="_blank">cchamb2@gmail.com</a></div>
</div><br clear="all"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Charlie<br><a href="mailto:cchamb2@gmail.com" target="_blank">cchamb2@gmail.com</a></div></div></div>