What I'm concerned with is the fact that --chmod -p will create new copies of files in the destination rather than create links
Matt McCutchen wrote: > On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 09:32 -0500, Matthew Monaco wrote: >> Is it possible to set the permissions on the destination side? As I >> understand it, --chmod just pretends certain permissions are coming from >> the sending side. > > If you use --chmod with -p, you'll end up setting the destination > permissions. > >> I'd like to be able to set permissions to readonly in >> the destination while coming from a --copy/link-dest which may more may >> not have had it's permissions changed. > > 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. > -- 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
