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List:       rsync
Subject:    Re: Trouble syncing
From:       Dave Dykstra <dwd () lucent ! com>
Date:       1999-05-20 13:43:50
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On May 20,  9:51am, Z.K. Zachariah wrote:
> rsync serv1::test /tmp/test
> 
> Everything went fine. An exact mirror was maintained. But from one
> (not so fine) day onwards I began getting this message:
> 
> receiving file list ...
> amanda/amandad.debug: Permission denied
> amanda/selfcheck.debug: Permission denied
> amanda/amtrmidx.debug: Permission denied
> amanda/sendsize.debug: Permission denied
> amanda/runtar.debug: Permission denied
> amanda/sendbackup.debug: Permission denied
> 
> Obviously these directories on serv1 did not have read permissions
> for others. But should that create a problem for rsync? What could
> be the real problem? Could anyone help?

By default the rsync daemon switches to user and group id "nobody" before
reading files.  You can configure it to use a different user id that access
to the files; probably you'll want to use "root".

- Dave Dykstra

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