<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">Hi,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">I am using rsync 3.0.7 from MacPorts under Mac OS X 10.6.4. I am getting the error in the subject in the presence of a symlinked and locked directory with an extended attribute. To reproduce:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">mkdir src</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">mkdir dst</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">mkdir src/dir-with-ea-and-uchg</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">./xattr-util --set mamma.mia "How about a nice pizza?" src/dir-with-ea-and-uchg</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">cd src</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">ln -s dir-with-ea-and-uchg/ symlink-to-dir</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">chflags uchg dir-with-ea-and-uchg/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">cd ..</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">rsync -avNHAX --fileflags --force-change src/ dst</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">xattr-util is a utility that I have found at</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "> </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><a href="http://www.bombich.com/groups/ccc/wiki/7ba51/">http://www.bombich.com/groups/ccc/wiki/7ba51/</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">, but any method to add an extended attribute will do. This is the output:</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">sending incremental file list</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">./</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">symlink-to-dir -> src/dir-with-ea-and-uchg/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">dir-with-ea-and-uchg/</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; ">rsync: rsync_xal_set: lsetxattr("dir-with-ea-and-uchg","mamma.mia") failed: Operation not permitted (1)</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: monospace; "><br></span></body></html>