+++ Balasubramaniam Natarajan [2012-11-23 10:28:19]: > On Fri, Nov 23, 2012 at 10:09 AM, Kingsly John > <[email protected]>wrote: > > > It is not changing the owner. At the filesystem level ownership is in terms > > of UID/GID etc. and not usernames. > > > > If your users are not in sync across different machines (ie., same UID but > > different usernames) Obviously the ownership will not appear correct. > > > > In your case sebackup and aravind share the same UID on different machines. > > > > > Wonderful, however in that case when trying to get the auth.log from > Bodhidarmar in to the backup server why would rsync assign the file to > itself, Rather then syslog & adm ?
If you are running the backup script as an unprivileged user, you can't
chown files to different users and groups you don't belong to. So all files
would be owned by the user running rsync.
The other list-member's suggestion of using sudo/running rsync as root should
fix it.
Kingsly
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