Rsync help needed

[Bob Chiodini]

Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 18:49, Bob Chiodini wrote:
>   
>>> I'm still getting
>>>
>>>       
>>>>> rsync: failed to set times on "/home/anne/Public/Recipes/.":
>>>>> Operation not permitted (1)
>>>>>           
>>> for every directory, although the contents of the directories appear to
>>> be writing correctly.
>>>
>>> I want to run this as a cron job, but not until I'm sure it does things
>>> exactly right.
>>>
>>>       
>> It might be that rsync is trying to overwrite the "." file.  Try:
>>
>> rsync -e "/usr/bin/ssh" -auvz /home/david/Documents/Recipes/*
>> david at borg:/home/anne/Public/Recipes
>>
>>     
> That's cured it for the ..../Recipes directory, but I still get the message 
> for every subdirectory.  Any more ideas?
>
> Anne
>   

Anne,

Looking at the man page for rsync the -o option which is implied by the 
-a option requires super-user access.  It does not say that -a requires 
super-user access, however.  Try using -rlptguvz.

Bob...