rsync permission problem when chmod 000

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hello

I'm having 2 problems with rsync... one is consequence of the other

1) I'm running an rsyncd one a server... then I run rync (client) as
root on another server
even being root, it doesn't read files/dirs with chmod 000 for example
and gives error on them

2) when these error happens, it happens "IO error encountered" and it
skip the "--delete" (I tried "--force", but doesn't work too)


is there a way to fix that?
that's ok for me if the first "problem" is not a problem, but a
feature... but I'd need the --delete for this files

thanks,
Fernando