cannot rsync when source directory lacks write permission

[András Porjesz]

Hi,
Probably it is related to this bug: https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=8844
Andras

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From: rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org [mailto:rsync-bounces at lists.samba.org] On Behalf Of Steven Levine
Sent: Friday, July 27, 2012 20:15
To: rsync at lists.samba.org
Subject: Re: cannot rsync when source directory lacks write permission

In <juuivm$ai5$1 at dough.gmane.org>, on 07/27/12
   at 01:26 PM, "Brian J. Murrell" <brian at interlinx.bc.ca> said:

Hi,

>I seem to be running into a problem where I am trying to rsync from a 
>source directory that lacks write permissions (i.e. r-xr-xr-x).
>Presumably this is because rsync creates the directory on the 
>destination, then sets the permissions to match the source and then 
>tries to sync the contents of the directory, which it cannot of course 
>lacking write permission in the directory.

Rsync contains code to handle this.  What version of rsync are you running and what is the command line you are using and what is the exact error message you are getting?

Regards,

Steven

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