rsync - Sep 2008 - DO NOT REPLY [Bug 5789] New: rsync trying to set times on symlinks

https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5789

           Summary: rsync trying to set times on symlinks
           Product: rsync
           Version: 3.0.4
          Platform: x86
        OS/Version: Mac OS X
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P3
         Component: core
        AssignedTo: wayned@samba.org
        ReportedBy: paredes@aecom.yu.edu
         QAContact: rsync-qa@samba.org


Greetings!

Recently we found ourselves needing to use over 70 symbolic links [all within
the documents area] on our website. These symlinks generate the annoying
"rsync: failed to set permissions on "/linkpath/linkfile.php":
Permission
denied (13)" when I run a cron with "rsync -azPHO
--rsync-path=/usr/local/rsync
--links -e ssh remote.machine:/source/  target". 

Interestingly, a verbose output returns the following:

[output snipped]
set modtime of Linkfile.php to (1219952074) Thu Aug 28 15:34:34 2008
rsync: failed to set times on
"/library/webserver/documents/obgynwiki/linkfile.php": Permission
denied (13)
[more output snipped]

The symlinks do transfer correctly from source but rsync insists in changing
the timestamps. I know that symlink timestamps can't be changed. So I've
spent
a week trying to prevent rsync from changing symlink timestamps by
systematically editing rsync.c near lines 462 & and config.h.in near line
230
in an attempt to circumvent either preserve_times or lutines without success. I
even changed the default umask to recreate the symlinks hoping the problem
would go away. I've also followed the 540 relevant rsync mail list topics on
this. 

I'm currently using rsync 3.0.4 with the fileflags.diff & crtimes.diff
patches
on OS-X 10.5.5.

Regards,
Bill Paredes
Computer Based Education
Albert Einstein College of Medicine


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https://bugzilla.samba.org/show_bug.cgi?id=5789


wayned@samba.org changed:

           What    |Removed                     |Added
----------------------------------------------------------------------------
             Status|NEW                         |RESOLVED
         Resolution|                            |WORKSFORME
            Summary|rsync trying to set times on|rsync trying to set times on
                   |symlinks                    |symlinks




------- Comment #1 from wayned@samba.org  2008-09-23 20:56 CST -------
This would have been better as a mailing-list question, btw.

Edit your config.h and comments out HAVE_LUTIMES, then recompile.  Maybe also
complain to Apple about lutimes() not actually working.


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