Yo,
Just a word of the bleeding obvious on the following problem I reported previously: (if someone else did reply - it got lost in the few 100 spam Emails I get a day) In the /etc/rsync.conf - under the relevant module area - it was a matter of setting the uid and gid to root. uid = root gid = root (On other machines I have setup with rsync - they all involved setting up highly conservative modules) Cheers, Lachlan. >As root, I am trying to mirror a Redhat 7.3 Linux user area >onto another Redhat 7.3 Linux box using rsync. This is using >the following type of command: > >rsync -a -v --stats --safe-links > >However, rsync cannot mirror most of the user area because >of the default permissions for the user areas. > >e.g., > >opendir(user1): Permission denied >opendir(user2): Permission denied > >drwx------ 3 user1 users 4096 Apr 14 20:55 user1 >drwx------ 3 user2 usera 4096 Apr 14 20:55 user2 > >Is there a way around this with rsync so that all user >files get mirrored? (irrespective of their permissions)?. > >(root on both machine can happilly browse around) > >Lachlan. ----------------------- Lachlan M. D. Cranswick Collaborative Computational Project No 14 (CCP14) for Single Crystal and Powder Diffraction Birkbeck University of London and Daresbury Synchrotron Laboratory Postal Address: CCP14 - School of Crystallography, Birkbeck College, Malet Street, Bloomsbury, WC1E 7HX, London, UK Tel: (+44) 020 7631 6850 Fax: (+44) 020 7631 6803 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Room: B091 WWW: http://www.ccp14.ac.uk/ -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html