If a user does not have authority to create files under another user id (meaning he
has a null user id, meaning root, in most cases), all files he creates will belong to
him. rsync is graceful enough to not even try. For basic unix skills, I'd recommend
O'Reilly's Unix in a Nutshell
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/unixnut3
I've never read it, but O'Reilly seems to be the best with the technical books.
Incidentally, even if you were running as root on the other end, you wouldn't preserve
ownerships, as your commandline doesn't say to do so. you'd need the -o and -g
options. You'd probably just want to use the -a (archive, preserve everything about
it)
option. It's equivalent to glopr (preserve group, symlinks, ownership, and
permissions, recursively).
The rsync distribution comes with some pretty good documentation on its options and
functionality.
On the versions: I'm not sure where the cutoffs are for your versions, but as they
work at all, you're probably ok. You'll probably, however, want to upgrade the 2.3.0
system, and if you're running large jobs, you'll want to, at the least, patch the 2.4
with the rsync-nohang patches. I personally, am getting so frustrated with the 2.4
series on huge trees (currently about 130Gb in 24M files), that i'm about ready to
revert to 2.3.1. I'll miss --bwlimit, but oh, well.
Tim Conway
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perl -e 'print pack(,
19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), .\n '
There are some who call me Tim?
Jeff Beley [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 10/17/2001 01:21:52 PM
To: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS@AMEC
cc:
Subject: Re: problems between different versions of rsync
Classification:
correct.
On Wed, Oct 17, 2001 at 01:19:39PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm just guessing: the files on the machine where you're invoking the transfer
belong to the user who created them, probably with his default group, and on the
machine you're sending to, they belong to the user in user@host, and his default
group,
right?
Tim Conway
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
303.682.4917
Philips Semiconductor - Longmont TC
1880 Industrial Circle, Suite D
Longmont, CO 80501
Available via SameTime Connect within Philips
Available as n9hmg on AIM
perl -e 'print pack(,
19061,29556,8289,28271,29800,25970,8304,25970,27680,26721,25451,25970), .\n '
There are some who call me Tim?
Jeff Beley [EMAIL PROTECTED]@lists.samba.org on 10/17/2001 11:39:38 AM
Sent by: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: (bcc: Tim Conway/LMT/SC/PHILIPS)
Subject: problems between different versions of rsync
Classification:
Are there issues between different versions of rsync? Specifically I
have a 2.4.6 on solaris 8 pushing to a 2.3.0 on solaris 2.6 over
ssh(F-Secure version). The issue that I am seeing is that when I use
the following command:
rsync --delete -rlvp -e ssh2 $localdir user@host:remotedir
The user and group are different on both boxes(neither being root).
Any help would be appreciated.
--Jeff
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