I've been running rsync for years, and it's working great - offsite backups, backups to a SAN, etc. It's a lifesaver. Occasionally, I'm getting a very few files that give me something like the following: opendir(etc/gconf/gconf.xml.defaults/schemas/apps/panel/default_profiles): Permission denied delete_one: rmdir usr/src/linux-2.4.21-32.0.1.EL/arch/mips/ite-boards: Permission denied mkstemp usr/X11R6/man/man1/.twang.1.gz.wEaSYT failed: Permission denied It's not many files, but since I'm running as root, I'm curious why there's a problem creating/deleting/unlinking these files. Anyone have any idea? Thanks much, -- tim boyer tim@denmantire.com
On Sat, Jan 07, 2006 at 10:22:57AM -0500, Tim Boyer wrote:> It's not many files, but since I'm running as root, I'm curious why > there's a problem creating/deleting/unlinking these files.Only your OS can tell you for sure, but things to check for include: accessing networked filesystem data that removes foreign root privs (making root's access happen as "nobody"), and protections that are not UID/GID-based, such as SELinux's ACLs. ..wayne..