Rdist - Problem with symbolic links and owner/group?
Cory Myers
aaec1!cory at dspvax.mit.edu
Sat Mar 10 04:51:30 AEST 1990
I have been using rdist for keeping a "hot" backup of a developing
software system but have found an appearent problem. I run the rdist as
root because the developing software system has multiple subdirectories
with different owners. The invocation looks like "rdist -R -c /root_dir
B:/root_dir" on host A. When rdist updates a symbolic link it creates the
link on B with owner as root and group as wheel, not the original owner
and group as it does for a normal file. Unfortunately the backup approach
we use sometimes runs in the other direction (from B back to A) and then
the symbolic link on A gets changed to owner root and group wheel.
Has anyone else seen this problem, or better yet, have a fix for it?
Thanks in advance.
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