I am new to rsync and am having trouble getting the presevation of groups
to work when I do an rsync copy between two computers. I have tried the
documentation, the list archives and FAQ and everything seems to indicate
that it should just work.
On compA I run the following as root
rsync -av /apps/ compB::apps
on compB I have an rsyncd.conf with the following and have run rsync
--daemon.
log file = /var/log/rsync.log
[apps]
path = /apps
comment = apps
read only = false
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/16
uid = root
gid = root
All the copied files get the gid root instead of the gid from the source.
I have tried it without the gid=root and then I get a gid of nogroup on all
files copied to the destination computer.
I have also tried various combinations of options including --numeric-ids
-o -g etc. The logs don't seem to indicate any problems.
Although these two computers are on the same LAN and scp would therefore
probably be more efficient I am keen to use rsync so I can get this working
across our WAN which of course only has low bandwidth.
Could anyone either suggest a solution or point me to some doco which
covers this.
Thank you
Steven
