Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread gname
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Name vs. ID is a non-issue. All actions are based on ID, > > not name. If and --numeric-ids is not active the receiver > > does a translation in the file list of the IDs it can find > > with matching names. > > Pardon ? What goes over the wire in each case ? Is it a

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread gname
jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > You can only chgrp a file to the group you are a member of. In this case i'm a member of the group 'users' on both sides, this is the group that the files are in after being transferred over (the only difference is that it isn't my primary group on one side

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread gname
jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > I assume that older versions of rsync would still exhibit the problem > > (since we have a patch relating to this in the upcoming 2.6.0). > > In 2.5.[67] --link-dest assumes -pog, 2.6.0 will not. > > If the receiver is not root there can be issues with g

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread gname
Wayne Davison <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Tue, Dec 30, 2003 at 11:41:08AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > rsync -avcz hostb:popt aaa > > rsync -avcz --link-dest=`pwd`/aaa hostb:popt bbb > > [...] > > and the files are not linked > > Check if the output of the "id" command yields different

Re: rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-30 Thread gname
jw schultz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Since you don't show command lines i cannot comment. Okay, just for reference, in the following examples I am sync'ing the popt subdirectory in the latest rsync distribution. My user name and group name are the same on both sides, and the directory popt

rsync 2.5.7 link-dest seems broken

2003-12-29 Thread gname
Hi -- I'm experiencing problems when using rsync between two different machines. Details follows: Both machines are running 2.4.23, rsync versions on both are identically configured versions of 2.5.7: rsync version 2.5.7 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and other