Matthew, please remember to CC rsync@lists.samba.org . On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 22:33 -0500, Matthew Monaco wrote: > Matt McCutchen wrote: > > With --chmod and -p, the receiver will locally copy any --link-dest > > files that have the right data but the wrong permissions. This will > > give you the permissions you desire in the destination without changing > > any permissions in the --link-dest dir. > > What I'm concerned with is the fact that --chmod -p will create new > copies of files in the destination rather than create links
In other words, you want rsync to hard-link the file and then change the permissions, affecting the permissions as seen in the --link-dest dir? IMHO that's a dodgy thing to do, and rsync probably won't support it; see: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4793 If you're willing to let some permissions in the --link-dest dir change, why don't you just chmod everything in the dir at the beginning? -- Matt -- 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
