[TriLUG] symbolic links and rsync

[James Tuttle]

This almost certainly is a result of file ownership.  Samba forces a 
user and group on the Samba mount.  Rsync doesn't seem to get it even 
though Samba is supposed to be transparent.  What to do?

Jim

James Tuttle wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I've been trying to organize myself and automate some tasks so that I
> can work smarter.  I often work offline on my laptop and want those
> changes to sync with my desktop at work.  I wrote a two way rsync over
> ssh script that simplifies that.
> 
> However, in addition to my desktop, I have a Solaris zone on which I
> keep a bunch of scripts.  So, in the home directory of my desktop I
> created a mount point and mount the scripts directory on my zone via
> Samba.  That works fine until I run the rsync process from my laptop.
> It seems that the symbolic link gets overwritten with a static directory
> and any changes to scripts in that directory no longer propagate to the
> zone.
> 
> Any ideas on how I might address this?  I'm not particularly interested
> in subversion and would like to figure out how to manage this within my
> existing infrastructure.
> 
> Thanks,
> Jim
> 
> 


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