hard links and schg flags.

[Jonathan Call]

I am (attempting to) implement an rsync method for distributing updates
from a FreeBSD master server to several 'slave' servers. In addition to
keeping certain userland files up to date it I also want it to keep the
OS up to date. 

I've run into a problem that I do not know how to fix. When I run the
following command:

rsync -aHXA --fileflags --force-change --no-inc-recursive
master.server.com::all /

I get the following error:

rsync: link "/usr/bin/ypchfn" => usr/bin/ypchpass failed: Operation not
permitted (1)
rsync: link "/usr/bin/chsh" => usr/bin/ypchpass failed: Operation not
permitted (1)
rsync: link "/usr/bin/chpass" => usr/bin/ypchpass failed: Operation not
permitted (1)
rsync: link "/usr/bin/chfn" => usr/bin/ypchpass failed: Operation not
permitted (1)
rsync: link "/usr/bin/ypchsh" => usr/bin/ypchpass failed: Operation not
permitted (1)
rsync: link "/usr/bin/yppasswd" => usr/bin/passwd failed: Operation not
permitted (1)
rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
main.c(1497) [generator=3.0.2]

I thought the combination of the --fileflags and --force-change flags
would allow such hard links to be created? Am I missing an option?

Jonathan


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