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dear rsyncists, rsync is superb! but did i actually find a bug? i did: $ rsync -vRHSPa rsync://rsync.mirror.ac.uk/updates.redhat.com/7.3/en/os/SRPMS . into an empty local directory the result was 140 bogus hardlinks of the same file: -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24 Canna-3.5b2-62.7.3.src.rpm -rw-rw-r-- 140 g g 6147582 2002/12/04 16:55:24

if i understand correctly, only the owner, and root, can change attributes of a file? thus, even though group members may be given permissions to write, and delete, a file, they cannot change attributes, without the workaround of copying and replacing the file? and do i understand correctly that on winnt and successors, permission to change attributes (eg 'everything' permission) can be

is smb over ssh still valid? i eagerly tried it as specified in the unofficial samba howto <http://hr.uoregon.edu/davidrl/samba.html>, but no go. net view responds "System error 53 has occurred. The network path was not found." ssh (putty, with port 139 forwarded to localhost:139) did successfully connect from a win2k machine accross the internet to my redhat 7.2