new rsync feature

Eric Whiting ewhiting at amis.com
Tue Oct 9 13:01:18 EST 2001


I'd like to have that feature available.

eric


Martin Pool wrote:
> 
> > i didn't see that there was a way to tell rsync to change ownership and
> > group assignment on all files transferred to a specific user.  meaning
> > "transfer all these files to this remote machine and then chown them to
> > 'doug', no matter who owns them here on the local machine".
> >
> > i need this, so i added this feature in my local tree.  seems to work
> > ok on Solaris and Mac OS X.  the code was good and easy to modify (yay).
> 
> You might as well send the patch through to the list.  Please send it
> in context diff format (-c).
> 
> Does anybody else want this or want it not to go in?
> 
>  --
> Martin




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