On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 15:11 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > User david needs to copy files from ~/Documents/Recipes to a public directory > under the home directory of another user on machine 'borg'. Some new > subdirectories have been created by david. > > The command used is > rsync -e "/usr/bin/ssh" -auvz /home/david/Documents/Recipes/ > david@borg:/home/anne/Public/Recipes > > Error messages are of the types: > rsync: failed to set times on "/home/anne/Public/Recipes/.": Operation not > permitted (1) > rsync: mkstemp "/home/anne/Public/Recipes/.blankrecipe.doc.bo5Bs2" failed: > Permission denied (13) > > The first one refers to a directory. If I look at the directory on borg it is > set to allow all of group 'users' to add, change and delete. If I look at it > through samba on the box connecting by ssh, 'users' can only read. > > I don't understand what the 'mkstemp' messages are about. Is this writing a > temporary file during the transfer? If so, I presume that curing the first > one will also cure this one. > > All help gratefully received > > Anne Anne, Does /home/anne/Public/Recipes have rwx for the group and is david, on borg, in the same group as Anne? mkstemp does create a temporary file. Probably to avoid damaging the original should the rsync fail partway through (just a guess). Bob...
