This is to suggest a possible improvement in an error message. On a recent rsync transfer I see a message like
> rsync: failed to set permissions on ".../somedir": Permission denied (13) for several dirs that have the sgid bit set There seems to be a retry pass, because all the messages are repeated. And then there is (perhaps a summary) line > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(977) [sender=2.6.9] I used a "-Cavz" option string, so it's understandable that it would try. The destination user is non-root and the group-owner is not in the destination system anyway (nor is its gid), so it's understandable there would be failures. Perhaps I will try replacing the "-a" with "-rlptoD" (no -g), but I am not really concerned with solving my problem so much as suggesting that the summary error message "..some files could not be transferred.." is misleading and might be improved: the dirs in question were transferred just fine, including files (and subdirs). Perhaps there needs to be separate counters on errors on transfer, delete, and perm-setting? And the error message could then be made more specific. I am not a subscriber, so kindly cc me on replies, if that is convenient. (Thanks) Regards, ..jim (and thanks forever for rsync!) -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
