rsync - Mar 2008 - Group name vs. GID

Hi,

I use rsync the replicate data between several sites. As far as I know
the default rsync operation is to copy group name and not GID.
I have two sites, lets say A and B with the same GIDs, and one, C, with
different GID. When I replicated data from site A to C it is working
fine - it copied group names and the GID is mapped to the one in site C.
When I rsync the data from site B to C, it is copying files with the
source GID, what causing permissions problem in the destination site, C.

On both A and B I use the rsync daemon version and configuration.

Any ideas what should I look for? 

Thanks,
Oren Mark
Intel - Israel Engineering Computing
ISEC Data & Application Hosting
oren.mark@intel.com
(+) 972-4-865-5987
iNET: 465-5987

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On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 02:11:28PM +0200, Mark, Oren
wrote:
> On both A and B I use the rsync daemon version and configuration.
See the rsyncd manpage for a discussion of the "use chroot" setting,
how it affects user-/group-name mapping, and what you can do about it:

http://rsync.samba.org/ftp/rsync/rsyncd.conf.html

Note that the "numeric ids" option mentioned therein is new for 3.0.0,
so for older daemons, you can consider the "numeric ids" option to
always be false.

Summary: either turn off "use chroot" or give rsync the mapping files
it
needs to work (and hide them).

Note also that the feature mentioned in the man page that allows you to
divide your daemon path into a path internal to the chroot and a path
external to the chroot is also new for rsync 3.0.0.

..wayne..