Rsync help needed

[Anne Wilson]

On Friday 22 September 2006 11:21, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:11 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote:
> > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 17:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> > > On Thursday 21 September 2006 02:25, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > > > 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.
> >
> > "-a" implies "-o -D", both of which require root access.
> >
> > > I run an almost identical rsync from this box, as user, but it is from
> > > my own directories to my own directories on borg.  Just in case,
> > > though, I ran the rsync from a root console and got the same timestamp
> > > errors.
> > >
> > > > Try using -rlptguvz.
> > >
> > > Tried that as well, but still getting the same timestamp errors.
> >
> > The "-t" option says "preserve timestamps" and if the two machines are
> > out of time sync, you can certainly get errors of that nature.  If you
> > don't need the timestamps, then omit the "t" from the command options
> > and let the destination file have the ctime, mtime and atime set to the
> > current date and time.  I'd also highly recommend you fire up ntpd and
> > get the machines you deal with synchronized.
>
> Anne,
>
> If it is not a time sync problem, are you running selinux, and are there
> any errors in the log?  

No.  The FC4 boxes don't have selinux running.

> Does it work as root?  If so you could put the 
> command in root's crontab and keep the -auvz options.
>
No, running it as root gives the same error messages.

It's probably not vital to solve this, as the files copy over successfully, 
but it is most annoying.  I hate mysteries :-)

Anne
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