search for: owernship

Folks-- I'm working with an old system I set up to copy files from one local directory to another. I was using rdist for this, but I would prefer to shift it over to rsync. The one thing I'm missing is the trivial ability to force the group owernship of the destination files to a specific group. A read through the manpage and various searches on the web do not turn up any helpful hints in this regard. What I would really like is something like: rsync --other-options-here --owner=someuser --group=somegroup source/ dest/ Regardless of the sour...

...ussion is _why_ CentOS doesn't have this or that. This is what I mean by "ignorance" -- people don't stop to realize that it's based on RHEL, several maintainers have stated it will continue to be based on RHEL, and RHEL is SLA-focused, completely. Because Red Hat _does_ take owernship of anything it ships with it. > We just want a product that mostly works and isn't too far behind > the developers. Then if you're talking anything Red Hat developed, then you want Fedora Core. What I designate as CL4.1, Fedora Core 3, is _very_ _stable_ IMHO. Of course CL4.0, Fed...