Date: Fri, 14 Nov 2008 01:01:45 -0800 (PST) From: Nate Eldredge <neldredge@math.ucsd.edu> To: Volodymyr Kostyrko <c.kworr@gmail.com> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Unprivileged user can't set sticky bit on a file; why? Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0811140100510.1597@zeno.ucsd.edu> In-Reply-To: <gfjdqe$9kv$1@ger.gmane.org> References: <Pine.GSO.4.64.0811132245120.1597@zeno.ucsd.edu> <gfjdqe$9kv$1@ger.gmane.org>
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On Fri, 14 Nov 2008, Volodymyr Kostyrko wrote: > Nate Eldredge wrote: > >> I came across this when trying to rsync some files which had the sticky bit >> set on the remote side. (It's the historical Unix archive from tuhs.org; >> the files in question are part of an unpacked V7 UNIX installation, for >> which the sticky bit of course had meaning. :-) ) It's annoying that this >> makes rsync fail; it messes up my mirroring script. > > You can ask rsync to change file attributes on the fly with the --chmod > option. Just my 2c. Thanks for this hint. "--chmod=F-t" solves my problem. But I am still curious about this behavior. -- Nate Eldredge neldredge@math.ucsd.edu
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