Re: rsync over lan

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

On Wed, Sep 10, 2008 at 08:17:14PM -0400, Celejar wrote:
> On Wed, 10 Sep 2008 15:17:57 +0000
> Tzafrir Cohen <tzafrir@cohens.org.il> wrote:
> 
> > 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
> 
> You're pointing out that within fakeroot, all files that have been
> created normally (before fakeroot has started) will show up as
> root:root; this is explained in the manpage, IIUC:

Not only that.

As root:
  # cat /etc/shadow >/dev/null
  #

Faking it:

  $ fakeroot cat /etc/shadow
  cat: /etc/shadow: Permission denied

Darn, fakeroot still does not fake me a set of configuration files :-)

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