Rsync message: client: nothing to do

[Yuri Kretov]

Hello,

May be I am wrong, but why rsync tells me that it's nothing to do?
I just want to synchronize the directory's attributes (with no recursion) such as:
permissions, owner, group and time.

Example:
=======

host1# pwd
/var/rsync/host2
!
! At first, I copy only subdirecory /usr/local/samba/lib 
!
host1# mkdir -p usr/local/samba
host1# rsync -a --delete -e ssh host2:/usr/local/samba/lib /var/rsync/host2/usr/local/samba
!
! Then, I want to update the attributes for /usr/local/samba, which was created by mkdir
!
host1# rsync -vpogt -e ssh host2:/usr/local/samba /var/rsync/host2/usr/local
!
! So, the diagnostic appears:
!
skipping directory /usr/local
client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or the --recursive option?

Thanks,
  -Yuri
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