Why is rsync running?
cp -p should preserve time stamps
see man cp

OH
maybe thats whats wrong

when I move the /home/grml folder to /home
I'm using a filemanager, cut/paste you know

Don't know why it's giving rsync errors
thats whille starting X

so, can I copy /home/grml to /home and preserve permissions and rsync times
via the cp command?

cp -a or cp -R or cp -p or cp -apR?

cp -pR

what is rsync copying and why?

I'm lost

rsync is complaining when I try to startx that the times in /home/grml aren't right
and it says operation not permitted..

don't know why?

my grml folder is
and original is
so, the files I placed in /home are more recent and maybe that's why it's freaking out?

how would I change the times back to
thats when it was made, it's a daily-snapshot download

Do you know why rsync is running?
What is rsync doing, what does it try to backup and/or restore?
So there is still a problem with the permissions.

Can't you disable rsync, after you know why and what it is doing?


BTW, what did you changed during remastering, only the background?
Is it worth remastering ?

Repo, I don't even know what rsync is LOL!

The rsync thing didn't start till I did the chmod, etc on /home/grml

I'm gonna boot it without the /home/grml folder
meaning I'm gonna bootit as normal, with empty /home/grml folder....

can I rsync the running /home/grml folder to remastered /home and use
--omit-directory-times??

is rsync similar to cp?

It did, but had no errors

I would suggest to find out what rsync is doing.
Seems to me it uses some directory and files to populate /home everytime you start X
You need to find the source files it uses to see what happens,
or try to find the rsync command that is executed.

Of course you are correct Repo

Somehow, grml populates /home/grml at boot via rsync maybe
and puts stuff there?

Cause when I boot up it's got stuff in it
but when I unsquashfs it doesn't

rsync huh?

Repo you wouldn't believe how many scripts are in one 188mb distro!

Happy hunting right?
I'll be back....

ok
I think I have solved this baby!

To summarize; I am attempting to remaster GRML medium
it's very easy too, once you know the layout...

The issue was that somewhere within grml; the menu automatically is created at boot(I guess) and rsync populates /home/grml with all the files, including .fluxbox folder, .opera folde, etc

I guess it's rsync?

so, to be ablw to remaster from the console, without using Xnest or any desktop, I had to populate /home/grml/ with all my .* files/folders
from my runing usb grml setup.

anyway, so my remasters all were working till the desktop loaded and rsync would complain about timestamps on the folders I had placed in /home/grml

so, first you gotta change the owner from root back to user grml

then you gotta chmod that bitch

This is where I was stuck...it boots but rsync complains about timestamps
on everything in /home/grml/*

so...I said Mmmmm.....timestamps?

Google "change file timestamps linux"

Huh...wha?

http://www.rampant-books.com/t_linux...file_touch.htm

ahhhh...

the timestamp i need was

now, the year isn't included, so

Hell yeah!

so now everything boots and runs great!
I will be submitting the whole easy "How To" and hopefully it'll get thru
Or should I post it in Debian forum?