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...ure on Aix or Linux). I made the following changes to make rsync set the group id bit on new directories. It seems to work fine for what I needed. I doubt you'll want to include the patch but thought someone might say if this is a bad way to do it, or have a better way to do it. I added the --setgid_dirs option to enable it. I catch incoming rsync connections in a script run as a forced command by ssh, reject connections if the -p option is set, and add in my --setgid_dirs option. The patch is incomplete since the option doesn't get passed to a remote call. If there's any interest in add...