On Friday 22 September 2006 11:21, Bob Chiodini wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:11 -0700, Rick Stevens wrote: > > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 17:57 +0100, Anne Wilson wrote: > > > On Thursday 21 September 2006 02:25, Bob Chiodini wrote: > > > > Looking at the man page for rsync the -o option which is implied by > > > > the -a option requires super-user access. It does not say that -a > > > > requires super-user access, however. > > > > "-a" implies "-o -D", both of which require root access. > > > > > I run an almost identical rsync from this box, as user, but it is from > > > my own directories to my own directories on borg. Just in case, > > > though, I ran the rsync from a root console and got the same timestamp > > > errors. > > > > > > > Try using -rlptguvz. > > > > > > Tried that as well, but still getting the same timestamp errors. > > > > The "-t" option says "preserve timestamps" and if the two machines are > > out of time sync, you can certainly get errors of that nature. If you > > don't need the timestamps, then omit the "t" from the command options > > and let the destination file have the ctime, mtime and atime set to the > > current date and time. I'd also highly recommend you fire up ntpd and > > get the machines you deal with synchronized. > > Anne, > > If it is not a time sync problem, are you running selinux, and are there > any errors in the log? No. The FC4 boxes don't have selinux running. > Does it work as root? If so you could put the > command in root's crontab and keep the -auvz options. > No, running it as root gives the same error messages. It's probably not vital to solve this, as the files copy over successfully, but it is most annoying. I hate mysteries :-) Anne
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