Steve The -p does not make much of difference (at least in my environment). At the end I figured that you have to set the Environment variables to 'CYGWIN=nontsec'. On a side note, I could see how this could cause issues. If one was to manually run the rsync without first setting the environment variables, the permission/ownership would default to the current user. And when/if the rsync/update task is scheduled is run under a different user there could be issues with the updates/reloads. Thanks -Matt -----Original Message----- From: sanesecurity-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sanesecurity-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Basford Sent: Friday, January 30, 2009 5:16 PM To: sanesecurity@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: [sanesecurity] Re: rsync Permission issues > Has anyone noticed similar issues? Is there a way to force the rsync not > to overwrite the local folder/file permissions? Have you tried removing -p from the rsync command? ( -p, --perms preserve permissions) The thing to note, it that the local files may then go read-only, so you might need to do a attrib -r on them? Cheers, Steve Sanesecurity