hiya, i think what you really want is rsync. you can do something like su webuser -c "rsync -avP /workingdir /livedir" (a is for preserve time/ownership/etc, vP is for a verbose status report) i believe that this way rsync will preserve all attributes except for ownership, assuming that your webuser is a non-root account. the nice thing about rsync is that it only copies over the changed/new files, possibly saving tons of disk activity/bandwidth. > 1) LIVE has a different "owner:group" than WORKING. i think su'ing to that user will do the trick, otherwise a chown -R. it's also possibly that you can specify which attributes specifically to preserve, but i'd have to do some fine manual page reading. > 2) If I move/rename files or diretories, I need this updated. rsync --delete will delete files/directories in the dest dir that don't exist in the source dir. i recommend using EXTREME caution with this option though. a good way to test is to add -n to the call to rsync, which does a dry run telling everything it *would* do. > 3) It only has to update once every 24 hours. <- Probably cron to do this. i use rsync for stuff like this all the time > 4) I will eventually have them on seperate computers so I can't just use > the following which is what I am currently doing: rsync can do sync's over the net too. the format is rsync srcdir host:destdir hth sean
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