"Ronald D. Walkup" wrote: > I am attempting to rsync data from a rsync server and set the > permissions to a different gid on the client: > > my servers name is "rserver01" > > my clients name is "rclient01" > > here is the rysync.conf contained on rserver01: > > # log file > log file = /var/adm/rsync_log > > # global options for all modules > dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb *.iso *.bz2 *.tbz > uid = nobody > gid = nobody > transfer logging=true > list=true > > [test] > path=/var/tmp/rsync_test > comment = rsync_test > read only = true > hosts allow=rclient > gid = cdburners > > on the server, ls -al of the source directory indicates that group > ownership is "visitor": > > rserver01>ls -al > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 3 rwalkup visitor 512 Oct 17 13:43 . > drwxrwxrwt 6 sys sys 1536 Oct 17 13:31 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 rwalkup visitor 79 Mar 13 2001 hosts > drwxr-xr-x 3 rwalkup visitor 512 Mar 13 2001 inet > -rw-r--r-- 1 rwalkup visitor 330 Mar 21 2001 vfstab > > I then execute the following syntax from the client: > > rclien01> rsync -avz rserver01::test /var/tmp/rsync_test > > after the copy has completed, I then execute: > > rclient01> ls -al /var/tmp/rsync_test > > total 12 > drwxr-xr-x 3 rwalkup visitor 512 Oct 17 13:49 . > drwxrwxrwt 6 sys sys 1536 Oct 17 13:49 .. > -rw-r--r-- 1 rwalkup visitor 79 Mar 13 2001 hosts > drwxr-xr-x 3 rwalkup visitor 512 Mar 13 2001 inet > -rw-r--r-- 1 rwalkup visitor 330 Mar 21 2001 vfstab > > Is it not possible that the group ownerhip be changed to cdburners as > the rsyncd.conf file indicates? > > cdburners exist on both client and server. > > any ideas would be greatly appreciated. > > Thanks, > > Ron
you need to execute the comman as root on the client
