Paul Slootman wrote:
> Hence although it would look like you could use rsync to backup device
> nodes and so on via fakeroot, as soon as the fakeroot session is ended,
> the information is gone. There is some support for persistent storage of
> the fake info, but that's not perfect; I wouldn't rel
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 09:37:04PM +0200, Robert Siemer wrote:
> Anyway, the reasons for my first email were: Is somebody using
> something different or even better?
The only other similar software I've seen is pretendroot. I haven't
evaluated either one for anything other than testing and packag
Hi Paul, hi everyone else! (-:
First, thank you for your reply on my topic!
On Wed, Aug 16, 2006 at 04:24:57PM +0200, Paul Slootman wrote:
> On Wed 16 Aug 2006, Robert Siemer wrote:
> >
> > Out of curiosity: What (backup) solutions do you use to let rsync store
> > device files and ownership pe
On Wed 16 Aug 2006, Robert Siemer wrote:
>
> Out of curiosity: What (backup) solutions do you use to let rsync store
> device files and ownership permissions without root privileges?
>
> I found out about "fakeroot" so far. Is there actually a practical use
> for the "--super" option? I didn't fi
Hello everybody!
Out of curiosity: What (backup) solutions do you use to let rsync store
device files and ownership permissions without root privileges?
I found out about "fakeroot" so far. Is there actually a practical use
for the "--super" option? I didn't find anything as fakeroot doesn't
need
