rights messed up after moving installation

lee lee at yun.yagibdah.de
Mon Nov 5 22:07:16 UTC 2012


Steven Stern <subscribed-lists at sterndata.com> writes:

> From the man page:
>
> -a, --archive               archive mode; equals -rlptgoD (no -H,-A,-X)
>
> So, you need to use "--archive -X" to transfer selinux context info as
> well as the other attributes.

Ugh ... darn ... What do I do now?  Files on /var have been modified
in the meantime; I could run rsync on / again.  That should be possible
while it's mounted.

What will rsync do?  Only change the info because the file content
hasn't changed?

Isn't there a better way to fix this?


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