This seems sure to be a FAQ, but it's quite resistant to Googling.... AFAICT, rsync provides the necessary INFRASTRUCTURE to synchronizing directories, but not the full solution. In particular, it doesn't seem to provide a solution to the problem of multiple writes between synchronizations (or have I missed this)? Yes, you can do a bidirectional synchronization, but rsync --update is going to look at just the latest mod time, not the difference between last mtime and the new one.... Now, for arbitrary files, there isn't going to be a good solution to this problem, but at least one should flag this case for manual intervention.... So: is there some OS solution out there that, say, yokes rsync together with some form of log file in order to do bidirectional synchronization, comparing modtimes with the last synch when deciding what to do? Seems like the remote file list capability might be a part of such a solution? this seems like an itch that someone has already scratched (and most likely several someones). Thanks, R _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota Help beta test TCLUG's potential new home: http://plone.mn-linux.org Got pictures for TCLUG? Beta test http://plone.mn-linux.org/gallery tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list