rsync and perms...

[Jerry McAllister]

On Sat, Jun 16, 2007 at 04:20:42PM -0300, Agus wrote:

> 2007/6/16, Bill Campbell <freebsd at celestial.com>:
> >
> >On Sat, Jun 16, 2007, Agus wrote:
> >>Hi all,
> >>Trying to use rsync to update my home page in my freebsd, i am not able
> >to
> >>keep the owner,group and perms of the files...
> >>I do all the updates in my ubntu. when everything is ready I run from my
> >>ubuntu:
> >>rsync -uav --delete --rsh=ssh /home/user/web/ root at ip_of_bsd:/root/web/
> >>
> >>I tried also with -pog and same results...
> >>
> >>Files are updated but the perms and owner and group changes to the ones
> >in
> >>my ubuntu....
> >>
> >>I want to keep the bsd existing perms and users...How can i do that??
> >
> >If the users and groups are the same on the system, the -a option
> >to rsync should preserve owner, group, and permissions.
> >
> >One can also use rsync modules in the rsyncd.conf file to specify
> >user and group.  Using rsync modules also has the advantages of
> >restricting access to the directory specified in the module, and
> >can also restrict access based on IP addresses.
> >
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> 
> OK...so i should first create a group an user with same ids on both
> machines? or only the names will suffice?
> And about the modules, i should be running the rsunc daemon which i am not,
> so i think i ll do the first...

I believe the numerical UID and GID is what matters and has to
be the same rather than the names.   But correct me if I am wrong.

////jerry


> 
> Thanks a lot for your help...
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