Well, it's definitely not in either of the man pages - and those should be the canonical documentation of rsync's behavior. But it's a small bug (with big teeth!).
Corey Stup wrote: > pyxl wrote: > >> Hi all, >> >> Tripped over a documentation bug. I'm guessing the behavior I've >> found isn't a bug in itself as it's kind of implied by chroot (unless >> the /etc/passwd db is read *before* you do the chroot call), so I'm >> calling it a documentation bug. > > > I pointed out the same thing a few months ago. > > I believe I was told that its in the documentation, I just needed to > know where to look. > > The reason it fails is that if chroot is used, the system can no > longer access /etc/passwd (since / has changed)... > > I spent hours adding debug and such all over the code to try and find > where it wasn't mapping the uid's. > > > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
