rsync error…

[Smoot Carl-Mitchell]

On Mon, 2009-01-05 at 23:18 +0100, Johnny Rosenberg wrote:

> The file mentioned is actually a soft link to a file with the same
> name. Its permissions are "rw-r--r--". I then noticed that all of my
> other links had permissions such as "rwxrwxrwx" or at least
> "rwxr-xr-x", so I thought that thre could be some kind of special
> thing about links or something, so I changed the permissions to
> "rwxr-xr-x" using Nautilus, but I still get the same error message. 

I forgot to add this to my previous post.  Permissions on symlinks are
irrelevant, since you cannot "write" to a symlink, but only create them
with the symlink system call which is used when you use the "ln" command
with the "-s" option.

Most operations on files and their meta data (e.g. open, chmod, etc)
operate on the target of the symlink and not the symlink itself.
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