I have a question related to the use of -p (or -a which includes -p) to set remote file / directory permissions.
I am using rsync along with System Imager to manage the "master image" of a number of compute nodes in a cluster. I have more than one cluster, so each head node has a copy of the "master image" (for the compute nodes in its cluster). I want to make sure that all the master images are identical [otherwise our software won't work...]. I am using a command like... rsync -av --delete compute cpc2:/opt1/systemimager/images/compute Based on the documentation, I expect the all the files and directories to be identical between the local copy and the remote one. What I find is that permissions are not set if the file is not copied. For example, on one system... ls -ld /opt1/systemimager/images/compute/root drwxr-x--- 6 root root 4096 May 27 10:17 .../root and on the other system drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 May 27 10:17 .../root but after the above command is run, the permissions are not changed. This is with rsync --version rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. Is this the intended behavior of rsync or is there a bug here? If this is the intended behavior, is there some way to do this [other than removing the target directory and copying the whole pile across]? Thanks. --Mark H Johnson <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
