On Thu, May 29, 2003 at 10:02:02AM -0700, Oswell, Michael wrote: > I am attempting to use rsync to "mirror" data between several windows 2000 > and windows XP systems. I am a UNIX person by nature, so decided the > easiest way to go about doing this would be to use Cygwin with cron and ssh > running as services, then run the rsync connection nightly through cron. > > Cygwin is installed on both systems and works perfectly. OpenSSH is > installed and running, and the rsync user we created is able to ssh using > password-less keys between the 2 systems. When I run rsync, it correctly > pulls the data down that I want. The problem is that there are NO > permissions on the files that are pulled down, so they are basically > inaccessable. > > I have tried with and without the -p option, hoping the files would inherit > parent directory permissions if I didn't use it, but it doesn't appear to do > so. The command as I run it is; > > rsync -rlztpv --rsh=ssh --delete remote-fs:/path/to/the/files . > or > rsync -rlztv --rsh=ssh --delete remote-fs:/path/to/the/files . > > With the "p" option included, there are no permission bits set on the files > whatsover. Without the "p" option, it sets the files to 0200. > > Any ideas here? Both systems have the Domain groups in the groups file, and > have the rsync user as well as local users in the passwd file. I would > prefer to not have to have ALL domain users in the password file for cygwin > if possible. > > I have also tried this from a DOS shell instead of a cygwin shell with the > same results.. > > Thanks in advance...
Hey cygwiners have you no comment? I think this is a cygwin limitation. Perms are probably not supported. With -p it will use whatever perms stat returned (apparently 0000). I'm not sure why you are getting a 0200 mode. -- ________________________________________________________________ J.W. Schultz Pegasystems Technologies email address: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Remember Cernan and Schmitt -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html