[Klug-general] Permissions problem

[Michael E. Rentell]

Not sure how that would help Nathan. Doesn't that just list out the 
directory? I know what's gone across and what hasn't. The problem is to 
defeat the 'permission denied (13)' complaint.

MikeR

On 14/12/11 14:59, Nathan Friend wrote:
> 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 <mailto: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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