Re: [rdiff-backup-users] bug?: uid of symlinks restored incorrectly

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Ben Escoto wrote, On  Wed, 10 Aug 2005 20:36:34 -0700:

>>>>> Naoki Takebayashi <address@hidden>
>>>>> wrote the following on Fri, 29 Jul 2005 22:19:37 -0800 (AKDT)
> 
> I was testing out rdiff-backup and noticed an unexpected behavior:
> uid/gid of the symlinks are set incorrectly after restore.

Ok CVS rdiff-backup should now preserve symlink ownership.  Thank you
for the bug report/test case.
-- 
Ben Escoto
  

Hi!
 
I'm also testing rdiff-backup but I get lot of:

    Warning: lchown missing, cannot change ownership of symlink /

On command:

    rdiff-backup -v4 --print-statistics --exclude-other-filesystems /localpath address@hidden::/remotepath

The ownership on symlink (remote directory) are set to root:root instead of the expected user:group... Is this result expected?

Both systems (client/server) have the same config:

rdiff-backup 1.0.4
Redhat 9 (2.4.32)
Python 2.2.2 (#1, Feb 24 2003, 19:13:11)
[GCC 3.2.2 20030222 (Red Hat Linux 3.2.2-4)] on linux2

Thanks!

Ben