rsync - Jul 2004 - Rsync not preserving owner/group

For some reason when using -owner -group my files end up being nobody:nobody
on the destination..?
This is Solaris 9. 
 
 Jeremy S. Loukinas

On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:53:56PM -0400, Loukinas, Jeremy
wrote:
> For some reason when using -owner -group my files end up being
nobody:nobody
> on the destination..?
> This is Solaris 9. 
>  
>  Jeremy S. Loukinas        
>  
You need to provide much more information.  command line? version? etc.
-chris
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You need to create an rsyncd.conf file that specifies uid root, and call 
rsync with that conf file when you start the daemon.  Otherwise the 
daemon spawns processes as nobody by default, and "nobody" can't
write
files as other users.  Check man rsyncd.conf for details.

Jim Salter
JRS Systems
>I start it as root...
>
>evedir01:/export/home#ps -ef | grep rsync
>    root 19760     1  0 23:48:03 ?        0:00 rsync --daemon
>evedir01:/export/home#
>
>but... once I start my transfer from the source I see a daemon fire up as
>nobody..
>
>evedir01:/etc/inet#ps -ef | grep rsync
>  nobody 20050 19760  1 00:01:19 ?        0:00 rsync --daemon
>    root 19760     1  0 23:48:03 ?        0:00 rsync --daemon
>evedir01:/etc/inet#
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Jim Salter [mailto:jim@jrssystems.net] 
>Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:59 PM
>To: Loukinas, Jeremy
>Subject: Re: Rsync not preserving owner/group
>
>The rsync process on the receiving end is probably running as nobody.  
>If you want it to be able to set file ownership, you'll need to run it 
>as root.
>
>Jim Salter
>JRS Systems
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>>For some reason when using -owner -group my files end up being
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>nobody:nobody
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>>on the destination..?
>>This is Solaris 9. 
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>>Jeremy S. Loukinas        
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On Wed, Jul 14, 2004 at 11:53:56PM -0400, Loukinas, Jeremy
wrote:
> For some reason when using -owner -group my files end up being
nobody:nobody
> on the destination..?
The receiving rsync needs to be running as root to preserve ownership.
I'd guess that you're sending to an rsync daemon that is running as
"nobody" (which is set in the rsyncd.conf file).

..wayne..