On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote:

Nate Eldredge wrote:

I came across this when trying to rsync some files which had the sticky bit set on the remote side. (It's the historical Unix archive from tuhs.org; the files in question are part of an unpacked V7 UNIX installation, for which the sticky bit of course had meaning. :-) ) It's annoying that this makes rsync fail; it messes up my mirroring script.

You can ask rsync to change file attributes on the fly with the --chmod option. Just my 2c.

Thanks for this hint. "--chmod=F-t" solves my problem. But I am still curious about this behavior.

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Nate Eldredge
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