My source files: $ ls -l ~/working/source/path -rwxr-xr-x 1 blakjak blakjak 115 Oct 8 01:37 foo.php -rwxr-xr-x 1 blakjak blakjak 6285 Oct 8 01:37 bar.php
My destination: $ ls -l /active/path -rwxr-x--- 1 blakjak wwwadmin 115 Oct 8 02:06 foo.php -rwxr-x--- 1 blakjak wwwadmin 6285 Oct 8 02:06 bar.php
$ touch foo.php
$ rsync -Curv --exclude='.*' --exclude='*~' ~/working/source/path/ /active/path
$ ls -l /active/path
-rwxr-x--- 1 blakjak blakjak 115 Oct 8 20:05 foo.php
-rwxr-x--- 1 blakjak wwwadmin 6285 Oct 8 02:06 bar.php
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Note that the permissions on the destination files have been left alone, but the group has been changed.
The man page indicates that group will only be preserved if you use the -g option (or by extension, the -a option), which I have not. There is no option to disable the preservation of group. Therefore the default behaviour in all cases should be to _not_ preserve group unless the user specifies otherwise. I can't understand why rsync is altering the destination files in this way.
If you can shed any light on this, I'd love to hear from you.
BJ
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