On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 09:01:18PM -0600, Eric Whiting <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: | I'd like to have that feature available. | | Martin Pool wrote: | > > i didn't see that there was a way to tell rsync to change ownership and | > > group assignment on all files transferred to a specific user. meaning | > > "transfer all these files to this remote machine and then chown them to | > > 'doug', no matter who owns them here on the local machine". | > > | > > i need this, so i added this feature in my local tree. seems to work | > > ok on Solaris and Mac OS X. the code was good and easy to modify (yay). | > | > You might as well send the patch through to the list. Please send it | > in context diff format (-c). | > | > Does anybody else want this or want it not to go in?
Hmm. If you have chown permission at all the you're probably root. So doesn't setting RSYNC_RSH to "ssh -o 'User doug'" do this in many cases? And using --rsync-path='su doug -c rsync' do some others? Just a quick poll from those wanting the sync-then-chown mode: what about sync-then-chgrp (which I'd advocate be done via ssh or su as above or via setgid directories), sync-then-chmod (eg to make a mirror rsync publicly readable) or any other arbitrary post-sync action? Bearing in mind, o those-wanting-chown-and-chgrp, that for myself, were I to want this, I'd perhaps only want chown and not chgrp (I don't mean to lack one feature, I mean only using one feature). -- Cameron Simpson, DoD#743 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.zip.com.au/~cs/ Questions are a burden to others, Answers, a prison for oneself.
