[Voyage-linux] directory permissions wrong on voyage-sync

[Richard Neese]

On 7/8/2013 10:03 AM, Martin Kos wrote:
> to clarify what the problem/symtpom is:
>
> i have added /var/lib/php5 to VOYAGE_SYNC_DIRS
> somehow the directory has wrong permissions. for php to work it should
> have 1733 permission. if i change the permissions on a running system
> (chmod 1733 /var/lib/php5), everything is fine. the changes, only the
> permissions, are reset, but the content of the directory is right.
>
> what is the right way to change the permissions of a directory in
> VOYAGE_SYNC_DIRS? so i thought that the problem is with the rsync of the
> directory, but i am not sure.
>
> greets
>   KoS
>
> Am 08.07.2013 15:48, schrieb Martin Kos:
>> Hi John
>>
>> thanks for your answer. but please check first the mentioned line of
>> voyage-sync (line 182) which has the following rsync command:
>> rsync -a -q --delete-after /$SYNC_DIR/. /.sync/$SYNC_DIR &
>>   ---> -a is archive mode, equivalent to −rlptgoD
>> so the -o is already included.
>> the problem is that the SOURCE of the sync is NOT $SYNC_DIR but
>> $SYNC_DIR/. and i suppose that the prevents rsync from taking the
>> permissions of $SYNC_DIR into account but instead just the ones from all
>> subdirectories & files ?
>> (this is based on voyage 0.8, haven't checked the 0.9 serie!)
>>
>> greets
>>   KoS
>>
>> Am 05.07.2013 19:53, schrieb John Coltrane:
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> by haveing a short look into rsync's manpage you can see that rsync has
>>>
>>> o support for copying links, devices, owners, groups, and permis‐
>>> sions
>>>
>>> so this should easily be fixable.
>>>
>>> Hope that helps
>>>
>>>
>>> On 07/05/2013 12:24 PM, Martin Kos wrote:
>>>> Hi
>>>>
>>>> I noticed that the permissions of directories listed in VOYAGE_SYNC_DIRS
>>>> are not being synced.
>>>>
>>>> the voyage-sync script does set the owner of the directory, but doesn't
>>>> chmod the directory. and rsync is only syncing the "content" of the
>>>> directory, not the "root" directory.
>>>>
>>>> am i right with my assumption that this is a bug?
>>>>
>>>> greets
>>>>    KoS
>>>>
>>>>
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first you have to stop the sync system  /etc/rc.d/ voyage-sync stop
then you remount rw
chmod the dir to the propper setting. then you remount ro and
voyage-sync start