You were rsyncing from root locally to user Thelma remotely [email protected] ^^^^^^^
On Tue, Mar 21, 2017, 9:38 PM <[email protected]> wrote: > On 03/21/2017 10:07 PM, [email protected] wrote: > > I'm trying to rsync (as root) files and I'm gettng an error > > rsync: mkstemp failed: Permission denied (13) > > > > rsync -av computer.MYD [email protected]:/home/thelma/business/Monday/ > > sending incremental file list > > computer.MYD > > rsync: mkstemp "/home/thelma/business/Monday/.computer.MYD.sl2GiP" > failed: Permission denied (13) > > > > Source file: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 128 Mar 20 21:25 computer.MYD > > > > Destination: > > -rwxr-xr-x 1 root root 96 Mar 13 20:35 computer.MYD > > Solved. > The file in Thelma's dir had owner root:root it should be thelma:thelma > (chown -R thelma:thelma *) solved the problem. > > Though I'm puzzled why it didn't work. I was running "rysnc" as root. > > -- > Thelma > >
