I am transferring some files from a RH7.0 machine to a RH7.2 machine as root with a cron job, using the following:
rsync -avt /home homeserver::home rsync -avt /etc homeserver::etc Some of the files transfer OK, but I get: building file list ... done failed to set permissions on home : Operation not permitted home/brad/ home/ftp/bin/ home/ftp/etc/ home/ftp/pub/ home/rsyncuser/ failed to set permissions on home : Operation not permitted home/brad/ wrote 14591 bytes read 40 bytes 4180.29 bytes/sec total size is 1249200945 speedup is 85380.42 @ERROR: chroot failed I have created the destination home directory as: drwxrwxrwx 29 root root 4096 Mar 20 00:07 home The source home directory is: 4 drwxr-xr-x 28 root root 4096 Mar 19 15:12 home When I checked the transferred files permissions inside the destination home directory, I get: 4 drwx------ 4 nobody nobody 4096 Nov 28 2000 admin 4 drwx------ 4 nobody nobody 4096 Aug 27 2001 arkeia etc.... so this problem looks like a permissions/ownerships issue of some kind. According to the rsync documentation, the -a switch contains: -p, --perms preserve permissions -o, --owner preserve owner (root only) -g, --group preserve group -D, --devices preserve devices (root only) So as I understand it, rsync will take all the permissions and ownerships from the source files and apply them to the destination files, and yet I am getting "nobody" as a group and owner on the destination files and directories. Can anyone shed any light on this? Regards, Brad -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
