[Wylug-help] rsync problems

[Anne Wilson]

On Saturday 10 February 2007 13:32, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> 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).

I had thought of that as a work-around, but I'd rather run it as user if it's 
possible.  OTOH, logs are difficult to read when they fill up with junk like 
this, so if no other solution occurs, I'll do that.

Anne
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