Re: How to keep owner on destination file

2006-10-27 Thread Janning Vygen
Am Donnerstag, 26. Oktober 2006 17:36 schrieb Wayne Davison: > On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:14:11PM +0200, Janning Vygen wrote: > > I run rsync as root to get the permission to overwrite those files: > > > > # rsync bar/ foo/ > > You'd need to use --inplace to avoid changing the current owner.

Re: How to keep owner on destination file

2006-10-26 Thread Wayne Davison
On Thu, Oct 26, 2006 at 12:14:11PM +0200, Janning Vygen wrote: > I run rsync as root to get the permission to overwrite those files: > > # rsync bar/ foo/ You'd need to use --inplace to avoid changing the current owner. This has the downside that the file is briefly in-transition between th

How to keep owner on destination file

2006-10-26 Thread Janning Vygen
Hi, i am using rsync since years and i think it's one of the must-use tools. Great! Today i got my first problem after years of usage and the fantastic manpage doesn't give me any answer, neither the web does. I am starting with two directory "foo" and "bar" with a text file "test.txt" in eac