Re: rsync error…

[Johnny Rosenberg]

2009/1/6 Johan Penneryd <johan.penn at gmail.com>

> Johnny Rosenberg skrev:
> >
> > 2009/1/6 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum at gmail.com
> > <mailto: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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Exactly…
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