Fwd: rsync and unlink permission

Wayne Davison wayned at users.sourceforge.net
Mon Oct 28 18:04:01 EST 2002


On Mon, Oct 28, 2002 at 03:12:53PM +0800, Patrick Hsieh wrote:
> Since "foo" has no write permission under /var/www, he cannot rsync
> from remote server to the local filesystem because rsync will try to
> make temp file and unlink the original file before writing over it. Is
> there any solution to this problem?

See the -T (--temp-dir) option for how to tell rsync to put its temp
file in some other directory.  If the temp dir is on the same file
system as /var/www, rsync will still rename the new file over the top of
the old one (which insures that no one can request a partially-written
file).  If it is on a different file system, rsync will use its
copy_file() routine to copy the tmp file over the destination file.

..wayne..



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