[Csync2] owner of files when sync on nodes

[Lars Ellenberg]

On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 08:13:48AM +1200, Claudio Contin wrote:
> So setting the ignore uid and gid, does copy the new files with root
> ownership/group ?

I think it ignores the uid/gid,
and thus for newly created things will inherit uid/gid from the
receiving csync2 process uid/gid, which typically is root:root.

> On Wed, Sep 26, 2012 at 12:23 AM, Lars Ellenberg
> <lars.ellenberg at linbit.com>wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 09:00:13AM +1200, Claudio Contin wrote:
> > > I found out that csync persists ownership of the files; the problem the
> > > UUID on the 2 servers is not the same.
> > > I can get around that.
> >
> > There is the "ignore" statement.
> >
> > ignore uid gid;
> >
> > May be what you are looking for.
> >
> > If you look for some textual matching on the "name",
> > csync2 does not have that (yet).
> > It basically always does the "numeric-ids" mode.
> >
> > You'd need to enhance the "SETOWN" command in the csync2 protocol.
> >
> >         Lars
> >
> > > Thanks
> > >
> > > On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 8:50 AM, Claudio Contin <
> > > claudio.contin at sharesight.co.nz> wrote:
> > >
> > > > Hi,
> > > > I'm new with csync2.
> > > >
> > > > I'm setting up for a small cluster (at the moment only 2 nodes).
> > > >
> > > > My configuration on both nodes is the following:
> > > >
> > > > group cluster
> > > > {
> > > >          host server1;
> > > >          host server2;
> > > >          key /etc/csync2.key;
> > > >          include /var/apps/sync;
> > > > }
> > > > nossl * *;
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > When I run csync2 -x everything works fine, but the ownership of the
> > files
> > > > is not root on the other node.
> > > > I was thinking to change the ownership after each csync2, but the
> > > > ownership change triggers the file as modified, and this ends up in a
> > loop.
> > > >
> > > > How do I specify file permission for csync2? I can't find any
> > > > configuration option about.
> >
> >
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> 
> 
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> *Claudio Contin*
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