On Wed, 2006-03-01 at 14:49 -0600, Kirk Strauser wrote: > I have a directory, /usr/share/media, where I store all my pictures, songs, > videos, and other random stuff. The directory is chgrp media and chmod > 2770 so that every member of the media group can write to it, and all files > writing to it will be readable by everyone else in the media group. > > What I don't really understand is why I can't update any timestamps on its > subdirectories, even though it looks like I should be able to: > > $ ls -lad /usr/share/media/music > drwxrws--- 4 root media 512 Mar 1 14:40 /usr/share/media/music > $ touch -t 200603011234.45 /usr/share/media/music > touch: /usr/share/media/music: Operation not permitted > > The only reason this is an issue at all is that I have a script that rsyncs > my this directory tree with a similar one on my machine at work, and it > throws a large number of warnings ever time the rsync command runs: > > $ rsync -auvx janus:/usr/share/media/music/ /usr/share/media/music/ > receiving file list ... done > rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/share/media/music/.": Operation not > permitted (1) > rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/share/media/music/albums": Operation > not permitted (1) > rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/share/media/music/singles": Operation > not permitted (1) > rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/share/media/music/.": Operation not > permitted (1) > rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/share/media/music/albums": Operation > not permitted (1) > rsync: failed to set times on "/usr/share/media/music/singles": Operation > not permitted (1) > ... > > I know this is pretty minor in the scheme of things, but it still bothers me > because it looks like it should work, but it doesn't.
Any chance that this would happen to be a FAT32 file system? I'm not using rsync, but I have a similar setup, (shared media files on a FAT32 partition), and have had numerous annoying errors because of this. Most notably, not being able to change user/group ownership of anything on that partition. I'm not quite sure how or if that relates to your troubles, though... -Andrew _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"
