Permissions Error

[Ubi]

Never mind, I'm not going to be bothered with this thread anymore

[jovisuk]

I preferred your first post before you edited it - that was my mistake I replied too quick - I did create it as root - I've just re-checked my notes, as I was following the link you sent me before on point 7:

http://www.howtoforge.com/mirroring_with_rsync_p2

Needless to say I have very much appreciated your help previous to today.

[Ubi]

I don't care whether you are adept with computers.
I care that you sent incomplete and half-interpreted warnings and make all of us guess what you did and what the circumstances were that generated the error. This while you *know* by now that you should sent exact warning messages and test circumstanced. Also you know by now how to systematically debug these problems yourself (you know, not just complaining about an error, but checking what the exact permissions levels are on files that you tried to download, or maybe fiddling with some test files to see what works). I find your handling disrespectful and lazy. I'll feel the same way in a few days too.

I mean, come on: if you managed to get that entire rsync recipe to work than you're bloody well adept to check some file permissions and apply some logic before asking for help on the forum.

[ryz]

Might it be that the error message is confusing and that it is not an permission problem on the destination but rater that you have several permission error on the source? I myself are not that good at rsync. I use rdiff-backup and run it as root on both source and destination to make sure I gets all files and all permission correctly.

[Ubi]

could be. It's easily checked by touch-ing a file into the destination folder. Rsync will always download with permissions of the user executing the script (except when being root and using keep-uid). Rsync really is a very usefull tool, but it can give funky permissions issues. Solving them is not different from solving a sudoku. There are many guides to troubleshooting problems and the techniques are not different between cars, computers or apple pie recipes.

On a forum like this you should at least show you put some effort in trying to solve your problem yourself before asking for help. This is no different from any mailing list or usenet group. I'm tolerant on this rule for first-timers, but people that come repeatedly and still did not learn to post accurate error reports sometime need tougher love. But if you think I'm blunt, search google groups for the postfix mailing list and read some of Wietses posts there .