On Wed, 28 Oct 2009, Matt Ruzicka wrote: > I'm in process of putting together a public mirror and noticed the > ownership on my files seem to keep swapping between uid/gid 502, 503 and > I think I've seen 500 as well. The mirror howto suggests using rsync > with -aqzH, which of course is going to retain the permissions of the > synced files. Do others just put up with the ownership changes or are > they splitting up the -a option into only some of its parts? On mirror.chpc.utah.edu, I don't have the ownership bouncing, because I don't run the rsync as root. I run the rsync as the user "mirror". All the files are owned by "mirror". I then have httpd run as user httpd and rsyncd as user rsync. DR -- David Richardson <david.richardson at utah.edu> "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up." -- Archie Goodwin, Death of a Doxy