Detection of permission changes

[Kevin Korb]

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First, you should almost always use -t unless you have a really good
reason to not sync timestamps otherwise future rsync runs will not
know what has changed and what hasn't.

Second, when you run with -p rsync should detect and fix any
permission differences.  If the permissions are the only difference it
should fix them with a simple change to the permissions just like your
chmod.

Note that -a (--archive) includes both -p and -t and a bunch of other
things.

Finally, when in doubt, --itemize-changes.

On 03/01/12 20:05, Pavel Sanda wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> is rsync supposed to detect permission change only (if other
> attributes are equal at both source and target)?
> 
> I'm able to synchronize permissions by -p when the file changes
> (e.g. its timestamp when -t is used) but otherwise the sole
> permission change of the file (e.g. via chmod u-w file) remains
> unnoticed.
> 
> Any hint?
> 
> Thanks, Pavel

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