<div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">NFS by default does not allow the root user on the client to have root<br>
permissions on the server. This is because there are lots of uses for<br>
NFS where you may not fully trust the person who administers the client.<br>
As a result, by default NFS maps the root user to the user "nobody".<br>
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You can turn this off by putting "no_root_squash" in the line in<br>
/etc/exports that defines your NFS share. This will give root users on<br>
the client actual root file permissions on the server. For example,<br>
here's a line from /etc/exports on my MythTV box:<br>
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/var/video<br>
<a href="http://192.168.10.0/24%28rw,sync,no_root_squash,insecure,no_subtree_check%29" target="_blank">192.168.10.0/24(rw,sync,no_root_squash,insecure,no_subtree_check)</a><br>
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(That should be all one line, but the email client wrapped it.)<br>
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> I'm very open to the idea of an rsync server, what would that consist<br>
> of?<br>
<br>
</div>Start with 'man rsyncd.conf'; that should get you started. The details<br>
of how to get rsync to launch in daemon mode automatically depend a bit<br>
on your Linux distribution; if you mention which one you're using I may<br>
already know how to do it, since I've set up a few.<br>
</blockquote></div><br>Thanks a bunch David, I changed my /etc/exports and now she's syncing fine with sudo.<br><br>I am using Arch linux. I have various rsync commands in my crontab, .bashrc, etc. set to run daily and they go just fine-- is that what we're talking about? I think by "rsync server" I am taking it to mean another location to rsync to.<br>
<br><br>Thanks very much<br>Bob<br>