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Re: rsync problems from Vista installed cygwin, ok on XP
- From: fraeone <johnnoonan at comcast dot net>
- To: cygwin at cygwin dot com
- Date: Wed, 15 Aug 2007 18:46:40 -0700 (PDT)
- Subject: Re: rsync problems from Vista installed cygwin, ok on XP
- References: <12125308.post@talk.nabble.com>
Unfortunately I'm having exactly the same problem with rsyncing from a Vista
machine to an OS X server. I thought it was because I was using the -a flag
(which includes preserving permissions) but removing that argument didn't
solve the problem.
DaveB wrote:
>
> My cygwin on Vista seems to work but when I try to do rsync to fixup files
> on my unix ftp server, it chokes with lots of errors and does a bizarre
> reset of the permission bits for the destination folder. Here's what
> happens:
> [this is the same rsync command that works fine on XP]:
>
> ===========================
> $ rsync -avz --stats --progress -e ssh .
> mylogin@myftp.com:/mypath/wherever/
> mylogin@myftp.com's password: xxxxxx
> building file list ...
> 8 files to consider
> ./
> rsync: failed to modify permissions on "/mypath/wherever/.": Permission
> denied (13)
> rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/mypath/wherever/firstfile.xxx":
> Permission denied (13)
> rsync: recv_generator: failed to stat "/mypath/wherever/secondfile.xxx":
> Permission denied (13)
> ...etc...
> rsync: recv_generator: mkdir "/mypath/wherever/." failed: Permission
> denied (13)
> *** Skipping everything below this failed directory ***
>
> ...etc...stats...then...
>
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> /home/lapo/packaging/tmp/rsync-2.6.6/main.c(791)
> =============================
>
> Then after I have done this, I find that the remote directory has had all
> its permission bits turned off (chmod 0) and the files in the folder are
> not sync'd. As I said, this is a sequence I have used many times on XP
> and continues to work there.
>
>
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