Hello Community , We will be using rsync to keep data flowing from a data-collection computer (data belongs to user "det") to a data-processing computer where the data is to be owned by whichever account is doing the experiment.
I would like to run rsync and be able to specify the target UID/GID to use on the command line. For security reasons, the user doing data processing does not have direct access to the computer doing the data-collection so rsync must run as root which then is able to read the data transfer it and change its owner ship. I found the message below (from 10/2001) addressing this issue and it looked like the patch had not found resistance. Unfortunately I cannot get this to work (of course the man page doesn't suggest it should...). http://groups.google.com/group/mailing.unix.rsync/browse_thread/thread/50f6957086b822d/c113be869c374a63?lnk=gst&q=chown&rnum=2#c113be869c374a63 Can someone clarify if this is in the pipeline for rsync 3.0.0? Right now I am using a python script which will be doing the chown but I really think this feature would be very usefull in general, not to say *much* faster when dealing with lots of files. Thanks in advance, Ezequiel keywords: transfer superuser chown ownership chgrp -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
