Re: rsync between WinNT and Linux (--perms --owner --group)

2007-08-25 Thread David Rothenberger
On 8/25/2007 12:27 AM, Richard Ivarson wrote: René Berber wrote: Richard Ivarson wrote: Does Cygwin's rsync send the user and group names to the Linux rsync at all? No, rsync used uid / gid, the numeric user/group id, not the names, and unless you did something to synchronize them they are d

Re: rsync between WinNT and Linux (--perms --owner --group)

2007-08-25 Thread Richard Ivarson
René Berber wrote: Richard Ivarson wrote: [snip] On the Linux PC there are the same two users and the group. Very unlikely. Your concept of user/group is wrong. I meant same named user (name) and group (name). On the WinNT side there's a user named "joseph" and on the Linux side there's a

Re: rsync between WinNT and Linux (--perms --owner --group)

2007-08-24 Thread René Berber
Richard Ivarson wrote: [snip] > On the Linux PC there are the same two users and the group. Very unlikely. Your concept of user/group is wrong. [snip] > Does Cygwin's rsync send the user and group names to the Linux rsync at > all? No, rsync used uid / gid, the numeric user/group id, not the na

rsync between WinNT and Linux (--perms --owner --group)

2007-08-24 Thread Richard Ivarson
Hi, with pleasure I use Cygwin. Thanks a lot to all developers who make this great package possible! It makes WinNT usable. :-) I use a WinNT (5.x) PC with the the current Cygwin's old rsync version 2.6.6 to sync files with a Linux PC which uses the newer version 2.6.9 of rsync. (Btw. I'm lookin