On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 08:35:04AM -0700, Rob Bosch wrote: >> Rob, many thanks for your reply. >> So it's not just me having massive problems with the NT permissions which >are >> being messed up by Cygwin tools like rsync. Actually most Cygwin users >should >> see these problems, I guess, because Windows 2000 and XP use NTFS. >> I can't use rsync anymore, because the permissions of the destination are >all wrong after rsync resets them... Oh what a pity! > >Rsync will work fine with 1.5.25. Just set the global NTSEC (see >http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html). You have to set this >variable in your system environment so that any process spawned gets it, >especially if you are running rsync as a service. If you are scripting it, >add it in your cmd file.
ntsec is the *default* and has been for some time. There is no reason to set it. cgf -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
