On Tue 27 Nov 2007, Wayne Davison wrote: > > Starting with the 3.0.0-pre6 release, there will be a new daemon option > available: "munge symlinks". This will allow an rsync daemon to accept > symlinks and return them intact (with even a leading slash still there, > which is new for a non-chroot daemon), but will not allow the symlinks > to be used while they are in the daemon's hierarchy. For those running > 2.6.9, there is a patch to enable this option: > > http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/munge-symlinks-2.6.9.diff
It seems that people running the Debian 2.6.9-5.1 version which has this patch applied. are running into problems where rsync wants to set permissions on symlinks. The bug report and extra info is at http://bugs.debian.org/455194 . I can't dig into this until tomorrow, so if someone wants to have a look in the meantime... Paul Slootman -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
