Hi i got two server webserver1 and webserver2 i want to rsync some data form webserver1 to webserver2 using a user called syncuser ( syncuser is added to the group apache : adduser -G apache syncuser ) here is my command : [root at web1 projects]# rsync -avzh /var/www/projects/beta-website1 syncuser at web2server:/var/www/projects syncuser at web2server password: building file list ... done beta-website1 rsync: failed to set times on "/var/www/projects/beta-website1": Operation not permitted (1) beta-website1/index.html rsync: mkstemp "/var/www/projects/beta-website1/.index.html.ZW9de8" failed: Permission denied (13) rsync: failed to set times on "/var/www/projects/beta-website1": Operation not permitted (1) sent 219 bytes received 54 bytes 60.67 bytes/sec total size is 57 speedup is 0.21 rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(892) [sender=2.6.8] on webserver2 my permission are as follows ( i dont not want to change the permissions, i want user and group to be apache ) [root at web6 projects]# ll total 20 drwxr-xr-x 2 apache apache 4096 Feb 7 15:54 beta-website1 Can some one help me understand how to sync thses files . -- Regards Agnello D'souza -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/attachments/20110209/1cf0e6a1/attachment-0004.html>