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
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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/
>>
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