Differing behaviour on consecutive runs

2014-12-17 Thread David Jennings
Hi all. I have a strange issue with sync'ing from a USB-attached ext4 file system on one machine, to a USB-attached ext3 file system on another. The sync works fine (a few thousand files). If I run it again straight away, or a few minutes later, rsync reports no action required. But if I

Re: [Bug 11013] New: [patch] Mention that privileges are dropped, when use chroot is enabled in rsyncd.conf manpage

2014-12-17 Thread Karl O. Pinc
On 12/16/2014 08:45:15 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: Only root can chown. If rsync isn't running as root then it ignores the --owner part of --archive. This also makes --numeric-ids inert. Simply put, if you aren't running as root then you can only create files owned by your UID. Rsync knows

Re: Differing behaviour on consecutive runs

2014-12-17 Thread Paul Slootman
On Wed 17 Dec 2014, David Jennings wrote: Hi all. I have a strange issue with sync'ing from a USB-attached ext4 file system on one machine, to a USB-attached ext3 file system on another. The sync works fine (a few thousand files). If I run it again straight away, or a few minutes later,