On Mon, 18 Apr 2005, Brett Viren wrote:

> Just a guess, but are you running rsync in a chroot?  If so, maybe
> this is causing the problem.

Good guess! In fact, chroot is on by default. Changing it to false
makes rsync work. Moreover, I just found

http://lists.centos.org/pipermail/centos/2005-March/003386.html

so this is a known problem. I have added "--numeric-ids" to the client
and this also makes it work again (and I like that better than turning
chroot off).

Thanks for your help!

Gerald