[ale] RSync Permissions Question

Jim Popovitch jimpop at yahoo.com
Wed Jun 6 22:53:07 EDT 2001


> > 
> > I don't think so, because there's no concept of perms in WinME,
> > therefore, there's no way for WinME to pass on perms from the first
> > Linux box to the second.
> 
> That being the case, one might expect that if the file being sync'd
> already exists on the Linux side, rsync would leave the perms
> alone.
> 
> -- Joe

Yes, one would probably expect that behavior.  However, I did some
tests and I was seeing rsync basically ignore any existing permissions.
 Oddly enough rcp and scp are more forgiving.  

-Jim P.

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