[ale] [Slightly OT] rsync problem

[Joe Knapka]

I've been using rsync to update a web site, and I've run into an odd
problem. Rsync seems to always "touch" the destination files (updating
their modification times to "now"), whether they've changed or
not. This is a serious problem, because some of the site functionality
relies on the modification times of the content files.

I have just about gone blind reading the rsync manpages, but have not
found any obvious reason for this. Can anyone tell me how to make this
behavior stop? (The touching of destination files, not the
blindness... Yeah, I know what you're all thinking. You should be
ashamed of yourselves.)

Thanks,

-- Joe Knapka

P.S. - On an unrelated but more joyful (and more OT) note: run, don't
walk to Amazon or your favorite DVD source, and snap up a copy of
"Firefly" (complete series + 3 unaired eps). You won't regret it. IMO
it's the best SF series ever made for TV. And I'm not totally sure the
"SF" qualifier really belongs in that sentence.