[Klug-general] Permissions problem

[George Prowse]

On 14/12/2011 16:10, Michael E. Rentell wrote:
> On 14/12/11 15:32, Dan Attwood wrote:
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>>     Sorry - I just find that baffling. Does anyone know what
>>     'Permission denied (13)' means in grsync? and what I can do to get
>>     around that problem.
>>     MikeR
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> Those leads all tend to say that I should be logged in as root to use
> (g)rsync. Well as my main machine runs Ubuntu I don't see how that is
> possible. So I pop up a console and type sudo grsync. It then asks me
> for my password as usual and after I've set the parameters and get it
> going I get all the failures.
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> How do I run grsync as root in Ubuntu. It isn't possible is it?
>
> MikeR

type sudo -s (no command after). That will give you root.