On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 17:13 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: > On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 05:49:23PM -0600, Jeff Mundine wrote: > > Trying to get an AIX (5.3) to run rsync 2.6.2 as a daemon > > For any process to be able to affect a file's ownership, it must be > running as root. The default daemon config runs each transfer process > as user nobody. To change this, specify uid/gid in your rsyncd.conf: > > uid = 0 > gid = 0 > Yep, that was the one. I had suspected something like that was the case, but am a little dumb when it comes to some of the permissions and system usage.
> > However, if I ever attempt to add a flag to preserve permissions, like: > > rsync -a test_file test_box::test_module > > these are the errors: > > That's very strange (and, as an aside, the "test_module" doesn't match > your cited config file, which had a single "test" module). You can at > least rule out that this was already fixed by trying 2.6.9 and seeing if > the errors persist. yeah, type-o, replaced alot of the info to mask server names and he such.. > > ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
