Rsync help needed
Bob Chiodini
rchiodin at bellsouth.net
Wed Sep 20 17:49:33 UTC 2006
On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:43 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote:
> On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:20, Bob Chiodini wrote:
> > 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
>
> Yes, it does (the group is 'users')
>
> > and is david, on
> > borg, in the same group as Anne?
> >
> Yes, both are members of 'users' and the directories and files under them are
> all owned by group 'users'
>
> > mkstemp does create a temporary file. Probably to avoid damaging the
> > original should the rsync fail partway through (just a guess).
> >
> I think so, too, which would suggest that there is a permissions problem on
> wherever it's trying to write the temporary file. My attempts to sort out
> the permissions must have done the trick, as running the command again wrote
> that file without a complaint.
>
> 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.
>
> Anne
Anne,
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
Bob...
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