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 at 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 at ctsrepocos ~]# who > root tty1 2016-07-22 10:40 > > > [root at 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 at 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 at 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, > > >