Jon Lewis wrote: > On Mon, 1 Oct 2007, William Dunn wrote: > >> >> I noticed that /CentOS/5/os was giving me a 403 forbidden error, but >> /CentOS/5.0/os/ wasn't. I tracked the problem; the files in /5/ are >> symlinks to the files in /5.0/, but they were owned by uid 503 and the >> targets in /5.0/ were owned by uid 500. My server is set >> SymLinksIfOwnerMatch, and if possible, I'd like to keep it that way. >> Will I introduce any problems for my consumers by changing all file >> ownership to 500? > > Short answer: No. > > Long answer: WTH are you doing that your rsync'd files are showing up > under different UIDs? You're running rsync as root? You really don't > need to / shouldn't do that. All the mirrored files on my FTP mirror > server are owned by the mirror user (uid/gid 501/501), as this is the > user that does all the rsyncing. > *sheepish* I inherited the mirror server from someone who left a couple of years before I started. I just adapted his scripts. I'll uh....overhaul this asap. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------- > Jon Lewis | I route > Senior Network Engineer | therefore you are > Atlantic Net | > _________ http://www.lewis.org/~jlewis/pgp for PGP public key_________ > _______________________________________________ > CentOS-mirror mailing list > CentOS-mirror at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos-mirror -- William Dunn Unix / Linux Administrator Virginia Tech Computer Science Department wdunn at cs.vt.edu / 540-231-3167