how to change owner of dest.

Paul Slootman paul at debian.org
Wed Oct 26 15:06:45 GMT 2005


On Wed 26 Oct 2005, Stuart Halliday wrote:
> > Paul Slootman wrote:
> 
> > You could setup an rsync server on the receiver, and set
> >     uid = mary
> > in the appropriate module.
> 
> Oh that's where I've been going wrong in my Rsync server.
> 
> I placed the uid= line at the very top of the file.
> 
> I assumed it would apply to all the modules.
> 
> I was wondering why I was getting some odd user id being applied to my backups. uid was 15015 bizarre or what?

Hmm, you're saying that when you had (incorrectly) put uid as a global
option, the files were created by a sort-of-random uid?
That would be a bug, IMHO...


Paul Slootman


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