On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 17:43 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > On Wednesday 20 September 2006 15:20, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > 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 > > Yes, it does (the group is 'users') > > > and is david, on > > borg, in the same group as Anne? > > > Yes, both are members of 'users' and the directories and files under them are > all owned by group 'users' > > > mkstemp does create a temporary file. Probably to avoid damaging the > > original should the rsync fail partway through (just a guess). > > > I think so, too, which would suggest that there is a permissions problem on > wherever it's trying to write the temporary file. My attempts to sort out > the permissions must have done the trick, as running the command again wrote > that file without a complaint. > > I'm still getting > > > > rsync: failed to set times on "/home/anne/Public/Recipes/.": Operation > > > not permitted (1) > > for every directory, although the contents of the directories appear to be > writing correctly. > > I want to run this as a cron job, but not until I'm sure it does things > exactly right. > > Anne Anne, It might be that rsync is trying to overwrite the "." file. Try: rsync -e "/usr/bin/ssh" -auvz /home/david/Documents/Recipes/* david@borg:/home/anne/Public/Recipes Bob...
