group ownership

[willem]

"Ronald D. Walkup" wrote:

> I am attempting to rsync data from a rsync server and set the
> permissions to a different gid on the client:
>
> my servers name is "rserver01"
>
> my clients name is "rclient01"
>
> here is the rysync.conf  contained on rserver01:
>
> # log file
> log file = /var/adm/rsync_log
>
> # global options for all modules
> dont compress = *.gz *.tgz *.zip *.z *.rpm *.deb *.iso *.bz2 *.tbz
> uid = nobody
> gid = nobody
> transfer logging=true
> list=true
>
> [test]
>         path=/var/tmp/rsync_test
>         comment = rsync_test
>         read only = true
>         hosts allow=rclient
>         gid = cdburners
>
> on the server, ls -al  of the source directory indicates that group
> ownership is "visitor":
>
> rserver01>ls -al
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x   3 rwalkup  visitor      512 Oct 17 13:43 .
> drwxrwxrwt   6 sys      sys         1536 Oct 17 13:31 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 rwalkup  visitor       79 Mar 13  2001 hosts
> drwxr-xr-x   3 rwalkup  visitor      512 Mar 13  2001 inet
> -rw-r--r--   1 rwalkup  visitor      330 Mar 21  2001 vfstab
>
> I then execute the following syntax from the client:
>
> rclien01> rsync -avz rserver01::test   /var/tmp/rsync_test
>
> after the copy has completed,   I then execute:
>
> rclient01> ls -al /var/tmp/rsync_test
>
> total 12
> drwxr-xr-x   3 rwalkup  visitor      512 Oct 17 13:49 .
> drwxrwxrwt   6 sys      sys         1536 Oct 17 13:49 ..
> -rw-r--r--   1 rwalkup  visitor       79 Mar 13  2001 hosts
> drwxr-xr-x   3 rwalkup  visitor      512 Mar 13  2001 inet
> -rw-r--r--   1 rwalkup  visitor      330 Mar 21  2001 vfstab
>
> Is it not possible that the group ownerhip be changed to cdburners as
> the rsyncd.conf file indicates?
>
> cdburners exist on both client and server.
>
> any ideas would be greatly appreciated.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Ron

you need to execute the comman as root on the client