problem with rsyncing web site

Wayne Davison wayned at samba.org
Sat Jan 21 01:43:57 GMT 2006


On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 07:36:22PM -0600, Walls, Bryan (MSFC-IS04) ef wrote:
> Is there a way to force rsync to take permissions from the enclosing 
> folder? Or something?

One solution is to grab a nightly snapshot tar file of rsync because
I've added the --chmod=TWEAKS option that will allow you to specify
something like this:

    rsync -av --chmod=Da+x,a+r src/ dest

That makes sure that all dirs get +x and everything gets +r.

..wayne..


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