AIX + ACLs - Unsupported attribute value (124)

[ericbambach1 at discover.com]

Group,

        I'm having trouble convincing rsync to read and apply ACLs to 
files as root or otherwise. Googling, reading the source and docs have not 
helped so far. I always seem to get the error message 
sys_acl_get_tag_type(): Unsupported attribute value (124).

        Our rsync version is fairly recent, I'm using a jfs2 filesystem, 
and I'm using a very simple test case (see below). The ACL in question 
seems pretty standard and simple.

        What does unsupported attribute value mean? How can I get it 
supported? Anyone have any ideas on how to convince rsync to save and 
apply the acls to the destination?

$ /opt/freeware/bin/rsync -Aa /tmp/rtest/a/ /tmp/rtest/b/
rsync: change_sacl_perms: sys_acl_get_tag_type(): Unsupported attribute 
value (124)

$ /opt/freeware/bin/rsync --version
rsync  version 3.0.7  protocol version 30
Copyright (C) 1996-2009 by Andrew Tridgell, Wayne Davison, and others.
Web site: http://rsync.samba.org/
Capabilities:
    64-bit files, 32-bit inums, 32-bit timestamps, 64-bit long ints,
    socketpairs, hardlinks, symlinks, no IPv6, batchfiles, inplace,
    append, ACLs, no xattrs, no iconv, no symtimes


/tmp/rtest$ aclget ./a/file
*
* ACL_type   AIXC
*
attributes:
base permissions
    owner(ebambach):  rw-
    group(staff):  r--
    others:  r--
extended permissions
    enabled
    permit   rwx     u:myuser
/tmp/rtest$ aclget ./b/file
*
* ACL_type   AIXC
*
attributes:
base permissions
    owner(ebambach):  rw-
    group(staff):  r--
    others:  r--
extended permissions
    disabled


/tmp/rtest$ find . -ls
49166    1 drwxr-xr-x  4 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 .
49167    1 drwxr-xr-x  2 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 ./a
49169    0 -rw-r--r--  1 ebambach   staff            0 Nov 10 16:11 
./a/file
49168    1 drwxr-xr-x  2 ebambach   staff          256 Nov 10 16:11 ./b
49170    0 -rw-r--r--  1 ebambach   staff            0 Nov 10 16:11 
./b/file

 
Eric Bambach | Discover
Senior Assoc. Programmer, Warehouse Infrastructure and Tools
2500 Lake Cook Road, Riverwoods IL 60015
P: 224.405.2896 ericbambach1 at discover.com


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