Re: [Hampshire] rsync usage

On Mon, 01 Oct 2007 18:58:05 +0100
Stuart Sears <stuart@???> wrote:

> john lewis wrote:
> > I have genealogy data on my server (landing) which I want to
> > duplicate on my local system (and eventually to a remote system)
> >
> > I used rsync with following command as the local user:
> >
> > rsync -avz landing:/var/lib/geneweb/ /var/lib/geneweb
> >
> > I get the following messages:
> >
> > receiving file list ... done
> > rsync: failed to set times on "/var/lib/geneweb/.": Operation not
> > permitted (1)
> > ./
> > rsync: failed to set times on "/var/lib/geneweb/.": Operation not
> > permitted (1)
> >
> > sent 32 bytes received 6324 bytes 12712.00 bytes/sec
> > total size is 35886561 speedup is 5646.09
> > rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at
> > main.c(1385) [generator=2.6.9]
> >
> > This is the first attempt at syncing the directories on landing
> > and local boxes.
> >
> > should I have run rsync as root or have I missed some part of the
> > incantation.
>
> does your local user have write access to /var/lib/geneweb?

owner: root, group: geneweb
permissions: 42777 (but should probably be 42775)

local user is a member of group geneweb

--
John Lewis
Debian (Sid) with the GeneWeb genealogy package