Re: rsync error…

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/1/6 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com>

> I've done some more experimenting now and I found the answer to my
> question. The problem was that Nautilus doesn't tell me the whole truth.
> Nautilus only show the rights and owners for the destination file!
>
> When I used the virtual console instead, the information was quite
> different:
>
> The original file:
> -rw-r--r-- 1 guraknugen guraknugen 34k 2008-12-18 19:26 Tangentbordslayout
> Ubuntu 20080217.ods
>
> The link located in a folder on my USB HDD:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 guraknugen guraknugen 101 2008-06-01 00:37 Tangentbordslayout
> Ubuntu 20080217.ods ->
> /home/guraknugen/Eget/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentbordskonfiguration/Tangentbordslayout
> Ubuntu 20080217.ods
>
> The link located in a folder, not the same as the original file, on my
> internal HDD:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 101 2008-06-01 00:37 Tangentbordslayout Ubuntu
> 20080217.ods ->
> /home/guraknugen/Eget/Kontor/Blandat/Tangentbordskonfiguration/Tangentbordslayout
> Ubuntu 20080217.ods
>
> So you were right, the owner of the link at the destination folder was
> root, not guraknugen (me), but Nautilus hided that information for me! Maybe
> there is a setting somewhere in Nautilus that prevents that behaviour.
>
> Now a follow up question: When using chown (even as root), the owner of the
> link doesn't change, so it seems like the change is applied to the target
> file rather than on the link itself. Is there a way to do this or is it
> better to just remove the link and create a new one? The reason that I would
> change the current link rather than to create a new one would probably be to
> learn how to do it.
>
> I'll taka a closer look at the man pages now. Thanks for your help!
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
>
> It wasn't too hard:
sudo chown -h guraknugen:guraknugen Tangentbordslayout\ Ubuntu\ 20080217.ods
Johnny Rosenberg
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