Well, after some more checking and re-checking, it turns out that I had the 'nosuid' option set on the exportfs file on the destination filer. When you do a 'chmod g+s' on a directory, it succeeds, but the filer just squashes the bit.
So rsync was working fine, but not catching an error which would be hard to catch and which would put alot of overhead into the system if it had to do another loop to check permissions after each 'chmod' call, though it could do so if the 'sticky' bit was set for sanities sake. Thanks, John -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
