Rsync help needed
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 20 14:20:05 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> User david needs to copy files from ~/Documents/Recipes to a public directory
> under the home directory of another user on machine 'borg'. Some new
> subdirectories have been created by david.
>
> The command used is
> rsync -e "/usr/bin/ssh" -auvz /home/david/Documents/Recipes/
> david at borg:/home/anne/Public/Recipes
>
> Error messages are of the types:
> rsync: failed to set times on "/home/anne/Public/Recipes/.": Operation not
> permitted (1)
> rsync: mkstemp "/home/anne/Public/Recipes/.blankrecipe.doc.bo5Bs2" failed:
> Permission denied (13)
>
> The first one refers to a directory. If I look at the directory on borg it is
> set to allow all of group 'users' to add, change and delete. If I look at it
> through samba on the box connecting by ssh, 'users' can only read.
>
> I don't understand what the 'mkstemp' messages are about. Is this writing a
> temporary file during the transfer? If so, I presume that curing the first
> one will also cure this one.
>
> All help gratefully received
>
> Anne
Anne,
Does /home/anne/Public/Recipes have rwx for the group and is david, on
borg, in the same group as Anne?
mkstemp does create a temporary file. Probably to avoid damaging the
original should the rsync fail partway through (just a guess).
Bob...
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