file permissions - the best way?

[tim.conway at philips.com]

in the remote system rsyncd.conf, for the module in question
"uid = useryouwant"
on your client machine command line"
"rsync -a localdir remote:module"
Make sure you have the permissions set right on the client before you send 
it.  cygwin doesn't support arbitrary permissions, but rather checks the 
extension and file content.
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
tconway at FLATUSWIN ~/c/tmp
$ cat script
#!/bin/sh

tconway at FLATUSWIN ~/c/tmp
$ ls -l script
-rwxr-xr-x   1 tconway  None           10 Dec 12 08:43 script

tconway at FLATUSWIN ~/c/tmp
$ true >script

tconway at FLATUSWIN ~/c/tmp
$ ls -l script
-rw-r--r--   1 tconway  None            0 Dec 12 08:44 script

tconway at FLATUSWIN ~/c/tmp
$
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creepy, huh?  no wonder a 'ls -l' takes so long. 
As you see, it treats executables, by default, as 755, which is what you 
need. If you've got files that cygwin won't see as executable, they'll 
sync over as 644 instead of 755.
There's no option on rsync to execute external commands, aside from the 
implicit invocation of an external transport, when that's used.
rsync is a file transfer system.  If you need a remote shell,  I suggest 
telnet, rsh, or ssh.


Tim Conway
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Dan Gardner <Dan.Gardner at emap.com>
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12/12/2001 04:12 AM

 
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I'm interested in the *best* way to set particular permissions on the
machine I am rsync'ing content to.

These are the specifics of our setup:
1                client pushes to remote
2                remote machine = AIX running rsync daemon as chroot
3                client machine = NT running CYGWIN
4                directory tree on client has many files/directories with 
many
differnt permissions/owners etc.
5                We wish ALL the files/directories to be put on the remote 
machine
with particular permissions/owner (The same permissions and owner for
EVERYTHING).

We currently do this with an "rsync -rt ..." then chmod as a cron job to 
set
the correct permissions  "775".

Any ideas on how to eliminate the cron/chmod job would be very welcome,
thanks for your time.

dan
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