-a gets several options you probably want (in particular -o and -g)
(from man rsync)
-a, --archive archive mode, equivalent to -rlptgoD
-r, --recursive recurse into directories
-l, --links copy symlinks as symlinks
-p, --perms preserve permissions
-o, --owner preserve owner (root only)
-g, --group preserve group
-D, --devices preserve devices (root only)
-t, --times preserve times
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of
> Hans Mignon
> Sent: Thursday, February 08, 2007 3:11 AM
> To: rsync@lists.samba.org
> Subject: owner and group
>
>
>
> Hello,
>
> I am trying to copy, on the same server, a set of files. I need to
> copy them every day with a cron job.
>
> This is working fine the only problem is that he always changes the
> owner and group to the root user.
>
> Is there a possibility that he uses the user of the remote files and
> not the root user ?
>
> rsync --archive --exclude ".htaccess" /home/virtual/site5/fst/var/www/
> html/ /home/virtual/site10/fst/var/www/html/aaa/
>
> Thanks,
>
> Hans Mignon
>
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