[Klug-general] Permissions problem

[Nathan Friend]

chown set's the ownership.  Do an ls -l

Nathan.

On Wed, Dec 14, 2011 at 11:38 AM, Michael E. Rentell <
michael.rentell at ntlworld.com> wrote:

> Good morning all,
> Is anyone able to tell me what I've done wrong this time?!
>
> I use grsync to backup the entire contents of my /home/me/ directory on my
> main desktop PC to a similar one called /home/me/Backups on my second
> desktop. I do this, over the domestic wired ethernet, by mounting the
> remote Backups directory under /mnt/.. and then using grsync to copy the
> stuff over.
>
> This used to work but now I am not sure. There are, of course, thousands
> of files and they whip up quite quickly but literally dozens of them appear
> in red and one of the ones I have been able to read says:
>
> rsync:recv_generator:mkdir "directory-details" failed. Permission
> denied(13)
>
> I have changed the permissions on the remote machine with
>
> chown -R root:root /home/Backups
>
> and everything in it went to root. So I then logged on to the second
> machine as root (it's PCLinuxOS) and let it run like that. And of course
> the grsync from my main machine runs under sudo because it is Ubuntu.
>
> I think new files are being delivered to the remote machine, but it does
> not look like any new directories are being created or their contents.
>
> All ideas would be very welcome at this time (consultant speak!).
>
> Ta.
>
> MikeR
>
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