Re: rsync over lan

[Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il>]

On Tue, Sep 09, 2008 at 09:30:01PM -0400, Celejar wrote:

[ Snip stuff about password-less root login, with which I agree ]

> B)  Fakeroot can apparently more or less do what you want; install it,
> and read README.saving.  It claims to be usable with rsync to do
> exactly what you want (although it says that "it will not work
> perfectly"); I haven't tried it.

Be careful with fakeroot:
tzafrir@sweetmorn:~$ ls -l /etc/ | grep -v root
total 2156
-rw-r-----  1 asterisk asterisk   4500 2008-08-12 23:31 amportal.conf
drwxrwxr-x  4 asterisk asterisk   4096 2008-09-10 13:57 asterisk
-rw-r-----  1 mpd      audio      8037 2008-01-30 05:25 mpd.conf
drwxr-x---  2 partimag partimag   4096 2008-08-31 21:02 partimaged
tzafrir@sweetmorn:~$ fakeroot ls -l /etc/ | grep -v root
total 2156

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