Dohhh...

-a implies -p, -o and -g which preserve permissions, owner and group. Therefore I chose to use: -r -l -t --devices --specials

For the benefits of everyone...

On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Bernard Fay bernard.fay@gmail.com wrote:

In the following sequence of commands, you can see directory /7.2.1511/ will change of ownership to another user and the execute bit is removed. This user, lbfay, is actually my own user but I am not logged on the server while running rsync with root.

[root@ctsrepocos ~]# who root tty1 2016-07-22 10:40

[root@ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/ total 476 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 apache apache 9 Dec 15 2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/ *drwxr-xr-x*. 13 *apache apache *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511

[root@ctsrepocos ~]# /usr/bin/rsync -a -vvv --delete --delete-excluded --exclude "local" --exclude "isos" --exclude "*.iso" --exclude "xen4" --exclude "*.i686.*" --exclude "i386" --exclude "atomic" rsync:// centos.mirror.iweb.ca/centos/7.2.1511 /share/CentOS

[root@ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/ total 476 lrwxrwxrwx. 1 apache apache 9 Dec 15 2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/ *drw-r--r--. *13 *lbfay lbfay *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511

Someone has an idea of what is going on?

Thanks,