Re: --link-dest non-optimal without --owner (or when not root)

2003-07-05 Thread Stephen Gildea
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > cvs I see it now in CVS (post-2.5.6). Thank you. However, this fix doesn't completely do what I want. If I don't specify --owner, then it works. However, if I specify -a (implying --owner) but am not root, then the linking still fails. Perhaps the preserve_uid v

--link-dest non-optimal without --owner (or when not root)

2003-06-30 Thread Stephen Gildea
If I run rsync 2.5.6 not as root, so that the -o (--owner) and -g (--group) flags don't work, then files that are not owned by me in the source directory will not be linked by --link-dest. When rsync looks in my link-dest, it sees a file owned by me. When it compares that with the source file no