[Wylug-help] rsync problems

[Stephen Patterson]

On 10 Feb 07, Anne Wilson (cannewilson at tiscali.co.uk) wrote:
> The problem arises when entering a directory that is owned by the 'other' 
> user.  New files are added without a problem, but there is a practical 
> problem, giving rise to endless messages like
> 
> rsync: failed to set times on "/Public/Recipes/Indian/.xvpics": Operation not 
> permitted (1)

I may be wrong but I think you need to be the file's owner to set the 
timestamp. I've not seen this crop up with rsync before but my rsync backup
script runs as root (its a full system backup).

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