Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!cs.utexas.edu!rice!sun-spots-request
From: aaec1!cory@dspvax.mit.edu (Cory Myers)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sun
Subject: Rdist - Problem with symbolic links and owner/group?
Keywords: Software
Message-ID: <5629@brazos.Rice.edu>
Date: 9 Mar 90 18:51:30 GMT
Sender: root@rice.edu
Organization: Sun-Spots
Lines: 13
Approved: Sun-Spots@rice.edu
X-Sun-Spots-Digest: Volume 9, Issue 75, message 4

I have been using rdist for keeping a "hot" backup of a developing
software system but have found an appearent problem.  I run the rdist as
root because the developing software system has multiple subdirectories
with different owners.  The invocation looks like "rdist -R -c /root_dir
B:/root_dir" on host A.  When rdist updates a symbolic link it creates the
link on B with owner as root and group as wheel, not the original owner
and group as it does for a normal file.  Unfortunately the backup approach
we use sometimes runs in the other direction (from B back to A) and then
the symbolic link on A gets changed to owner root and group wheel.

Has anyone else seen this problem, or better yet, have a fix for it?

Thanks in advance.