Permissions Problems

John Davis johnd at spm1.com
Tue Dec 23 06:45:50 EST 2003


Here's my command copied from a shell script:\

rsync --verbose  --progress --stats --compress --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh
--recursive --times --perms --links \
/home/* trt at xxxxxx.xxxxxxx.xxx:/remotebackups/

Here's some (a small part) of the output:
jk/.recently-used
         253 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "jk/.secpanel/.runfiles": Permission denied
(2)
stat jk/.secpanel/.runfiles : Permission denied
rsync: failed to open "jk/.viminfo", continuing : Permission denied
jk/.viminfo
        4503 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "jk/Desktop/Trash": Permission denied (2)
stat jk/Desktop/Trash : Permission denied
jk/rsync.sh
         161 100%    0.00kB/s    0:00:00
mkstemp jk/..bash_history.zb2Vlp failed: Permission denied
mkstemp jk/..fonts.cache-1.WRbevE failed: Permission denied
mkstemp jk/..recently-used.rleTG4 failed: Permission denied
mkstemp jk/..viminfo.IcFUcX failed: Permission denied
mkstemp jk/.rsync.sh.focqIP failed: Permission denied
rsync[17002] (sender) heap statistics:
  arena:        1659224   (bytes from sbrk)
  ordblks:           51   (chunks not in use)
  smblks:             6
  hblks:              1   (chunks from mmap)
  hblkhd:        266240   (bytes from mmap)
  usmblks:            0
  fsmblks:          232
  uordblks:     1509880   (bytes used)
  fordblks:      149344   (bytes free)
  keepcost:      132928   (bytes in releasable chunk)

The script is being run from the root account. My understanding is that
running as root will eliminate the permission errors, but apparently
that's not so. 





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