> Rob, many thanks for your reply. > So it's not just me having massive problems with the NT permissions which are > being messed up by Cygwin tools like rsync. Actually most Cygwin users should > see these problems, I guess, because Windows 2000 and XP use NTFS. > I can't use rsync anymore, because the permissions of the destination are all wrong after rsync resets them... Oh what a pity!
Rsync will work fine with 1.5.25. Just set the global NTSEC (see http://www.cygwin.com/cygwin-ug-net/ntsec.html). You have to set this variable in your system environment so that any process spawned gets it, especially if you are running rsync as a service. If you are scripting it, add it in your cmd file. To set it globally, Right-click on My Computer, choose properties, click Advanced, Click environment variables and click New, add CYGWIN with a value of NONTSEC. This causes cygwin to ignore all permissions and use the Windows assigned default values. I also recommend you look at cwrsync by Tev. He has created an install package that works very well (http://www.itefix.no/i2/cwrsync). > The fstab doesn't seem to work for me. You mentioned that you mount. How could I verify > that my Cygwin does mount, too? Do you have to use a special > command in order to mount in Cygwin? > I just run a small bash script which uses rsync with the /cygdrive/c/ etc > drive syntax. Is this mounting? > Could you please post an example of how your fstab looks like? Thanks. > My Cygwin/etc/fstab looks like this: > none /cygdrive cygdrive user,noacl,posix=0 0 0 > But rsync still resets all my NT permissions. Fstab will only work with these options under 1.7. The noacl option was added in 1.7. Example entry in fstab would be D:\ /mnt ntfs noacl,posix=0,user 0 0 which assigns drive D:\ to /mnt. Then in a bash script you would reference /mnt. Also, in the rsyncd.conf file, you would reference a directory as /mnt/backup01 as the path (e.g. path = /mnt/backup01). Under 1.5 you do not need to worry about any of this since the global NONTSEC fixes the issues. Under 1.7 there is no global option like NONTSEC. Rob -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/
