Go figure... I understood it completely backwards from the same text, and people wonder why there are wars... :) ET Bryan O'Neal writes: > From what I understood he was trying to mirror and the permissions > were correctly set on the source but somehow changed permissions on > the destination. It is very odd - which is why I asked for more data. > > On Fri, May 7, 2010 at 12:47 AM, kitepilot@kitepilot.com > wrote: >> The design of rsync pursues to mirror "what you have" to "what you want to >> have", and that includes permissions (save some explicit "override-able" >> exceptions like setuid). >> Even though there may be options to override and/or expand that behavior, >> the "correct and elegant way" (given the underline design and basic goals of >> rsync) would be to set the appropriate permissions of the files before >> transfer. >> In other words: >> as part or your "rsync" script, set the permissions of the files to what you >> want to see in the final destination. >> YMMV... >> ET >> >> >> joe@actionline.com writes: >>> >>> When using rsync to upload files to my web host, >>> it is changing directory permissions so things don't work >>> until I ssh in and change the directory permission back >>> to 755. >>> Why is it doing this and what do I need to do to keep >>> the permissions as they are set on my local system at 755. >>> Here's the syntax that I used first and second. I added the 'p' >>> thinking that would preserve permissions, but it did not. >>> rsync -avH --progress /home/joe/mydata/av7/website/ >>> vsiqcom@box582.bluehost.com:www/av7/website/ >>> rsync -avHp --progress /home/joe/mydata/av7/website/ >>> vsiqcom@box582.bluehost.com:www/av7/website/ >>> >>> --------------------------------------------------- >>> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >>> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >>> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> >> --------------------------------------------------- >> PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us >> To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: >> http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss >> > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change your mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss