the --owner option won't work?

[Mozo]

The rsync deamon is chroot enabled. And as I disable it with
use chroot = no
the file ownerships are correct mapped to the target side, problem is 
solved.
Thank for your help.

Wayne Davison ??:

>On Sat, Jun 23, 2007 at 05:21:06PM +0800, Mozo wrote:
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>>Refer to the rsync document, it says rsync will try to map to the
>>target UID by username. But rsync client with -a --owner --group
>>options will set the owner UID of the target file to 500. Did I miss
>>anything?
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>You haven't given enough detail for us to do more than guess at the
>problem.  My #1 guess is that you're using an rsync daemon with chroot
>enabled (and no system support files installed), so rsync is forced to
>preserve the usernames as if --numeric-ids was specified.  (This is
>mentioned in the rsyncd.conf manpage.)
>
>If that's not it, you'll need to be more specific in what command you're
>using.
>
>..wayne..
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