[Cialug] rsync Weirdness

[John Roach]

Sounds like they are temp files with links to them. You might want to 
create a monitoring script for your /proc/* to see what is going on. 
Also take a look for hidden jobs running.

L. V. Lammert wrote:
> OK, .. here's a good one for you guys:
>
> We run rsnapshot jobs on all our servers, .. and they have been runng for
> many years.
>
> Trying to add a new server to the mix, and the rsync jobs are throwing
> some STRANGE errors, .. trying to do the manually creates the same
> problem, AS DOES A MANUAL rsync I'm trying to do on two complete different
> machines.
>
> Has anyone ever seen messages like:
>
> file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/cwd"
> file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/root"
> file has vanished: "/proc/23522/task/23522/exe"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/cwd"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/root"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/exe"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/task/22401/cwd"
> file has vanished: "/proc/22401/task/22401/root"
>
> Where /proc is not even in the directories being backed up? What might
> cause the exact same problem on two totally separate machine environments?
> (One pair is NTFS on Ubunu 10.4 -> OpenBSD 4.5, and the other is Debian ->
> CentOS 5.4.)
>
> 	TIA!
>
> 	Lee
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