site_archiver@lists.apple.com Delivered-To: darwin-dev@lists.apple.com User-agent: Microsoft-Entourage/10.1.4.030702.0 (First, if this is not the corrrect place to post this question, please accept my apologies. Neither the OS X server listserv nor googling has turned up anything.) Are there any known issues with rsync under Darwin and symlinks? I have a "Data" drive, attached to a 10.3.6 OS X Server on a G5 Xserve, that looks like this at its root: drwxr-xr-x 20 useradmin AD\group 680 9 Dec 14:51 Users drwxr-xr-x 56 webadmin extension 1904 10 Dec 08:56 Web When (and only when) I issue the following command (as root), backing up Data to an attached Firewire drive rsync -a /Volumes/Data /Volumes/backup1/test the Data drive's root becomes: drwxr-xr-x 20 useradmin AD\group 680 9 Dec 14:51 Users drwxr-xr-x 56 labadmin AD\group 1904 10 Dec 08:56 Web (The AD\group is a Active Directory group.) In other words, rsync seems to be modifying the user/group! This happens even if nothing has changed on Data--e.g., I issue an rsync command, chown the Web folder back to its correct permissions, and rsync again. The only thing I've been able to figure out is that there is a symlink in the User directory tree above that points to the Web folder. If I remove this symlink, the behavior vanishes--rsync doesn't touch the user/group of Web anymore. Thanks for any insight- Ben _______________________________________________ Do not post admin requests to the list. They will be ignored. Darwin-dev mailing list (Darwin-dev@lists.apple.com) Help/Unsubscribe/Update your Subscription: http://lists.apple.com/mailman/options/darwin-dev/site_archiver%40lists.appl... This email sent to site_archiver@lists.apple.com