Re: Regarding ownership !!

2004-04-09 Thread Tim Conway
Holy cow! Now that's a blast from the past. The thread started two years ago... at least, the one he included part of. Since then, I lost that job, spent 14 months unemployed, and got into a new job. Anyway: your set of options is an almost complete specification of the "--archive" or "-a"

Re: Regarding ownership !!

2004-04-09 Thread Wayne Davison
On Fri, Apr 09, 2004 at 10:38:00AM -0500, Lakshminarayanan Radhakrishnan wrote: > Eventhough i am using "-owner" option while synching to the mate system. > The owner ship from the System A is not restored in the System B. The user running the program needs to have permissions to set the owner in

Re: Device majors incorrectly set to 0 during rsync

2004-04-09 Thread Wayne Davison
ut, the patch should be applied to the CVS version, which is also available in this "nightly" tar file: http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/nightly/rsync-HEAD-20040409-1343PDT.tar.gz Comments welcomed. Anyone testing this, please let me know. Thanks. ..wayne.. * FYI, the aforementioned co

[PATCH] stderr logging support for rsync-2.6.0

2004-04-09 Thread Sascha Silbe
Hi! The attached patch allows logging to stderr. Unlike the other patch posted by John H. Robinson, IV, this one does not need /dev/stderr. It's needed for running rsync in a fully chrooted, supervised [1] environment. [1] http://cr.yp.to/daemontools.html CU Sascha -- Registered Linux User #7

include/exclude bug in rsync 2.6.0/2.6.1pre1

2004-04-09 Thread John Bowman
As mentioned on the rsync home page, the --files-from=FILE option in rsync version 2.6.0 is a useful option that allows one to "specify a list of files to transfer, and can be much more efficient than a recursive descent using include/exclude statements (if you know in advance what files you want t