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| -rw-r--r-- | doc/bugs/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn | 34 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn | 36 | ||||
| -rw-r--r-- | doc/git-annex.mdwn | 10 |
3 files changed, 41 insertions, 39 deletions
diff --git a/doc/bugs/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn b/doc/bugs/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn new file mode 100644 index 000000000..0cf62bab0 --- /dev/null +++ b/doc/bugs/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +a little introduction: +i am forced to use windows on my work laptop and workstation, also my wife needs windows. +my "servers" would be linux, i am actually using fedora and i upgraded from fc17 since i was not able to get a recent version of git annex to compile there. + +what happens, is that once i try to copy from the windows machine where the file is to the linux through ssh+rsync, i receive this error - as long as the user owning the linux repository isn't root: + + c:\locale>git annex copy --to linux myfile + copy myfile (checking linux...) (to linux...) + rsync: failed to open "/linux/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s10--937a89b559820f8658892" + myfile + 10 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) + rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /home/lapo/package/rsync-3.0.9-1/src/rsyn + total size is 10 speedup is 0.09 + failed + git-annex: copy: 1 failed + +the file in tmp has no permissions at all: + + me@linux annex]$ ls -lart tmp/SHA256E-s10--937a89b559820f86588921ef3eb12c13074d078b62ef205bb597bf2e895408c3 + ----------. 1 me me 10 Oct 13 22:50 tmp/SHA256Es10--937a89b559820f86588921ef3eb12c13074d078b62ef205bb597bf2e895408c3 + +(just consider the following if the above makes any sense:) in another case (i cannot reproduce it now, possibly due to having upgraded git annex from some 2012 release), it happened that a failed download via copy/move from linux to windows (failed for permissions) would not be recorded as failed (on windows side), causing files to possibly be killed at the first subsequent drop command. + +my question is: are these 0-permissions on tmp files a bug or just due to some ignorance i did put in setting up the git/annex repo ? is a git/annex repo to be run solely as root/sudoer ? or shall i take any other step in configuring it ? + +technicalities: + +"client": windows version: + + git-annex version: 4.20131002-gf25991c + +"server": linux version: + + git-annex version: 3.20130207 diff --git a/doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn b/doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn index 0cf62bab0..e9c460925 100644 --- a/doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn +++ b/doc/forum/cross_platform_permissions_woes.mdwn @@ -1,34 +1,2 @@ -a little introduction: -i am forced to use windows on my work laptop and workstation, also my wife needs windows. -my "servers" would be linux, i am actually using fedora and i upgraded from fc17 since i was not able to get a recent version of git annex to compile there. - -what happens, is that once i try to copy from the windows machine where the file is to the linux through ssh+rsync, i receive this error - as long as the user owning the linux repository isn't root: - - c:\locale>git annex copy --to linux myfile - copy myfile (checking linux...) (to linux...) - rsync: failed to open "/linux/annex/tmp/SHA256E-s10--937a89b559820f8658892" - myfile - 10 100% 0.00kB/s 0:00:00 (xfer#1, to-check=0/1) - rsync error: syntax or usage error (code 1) at /home/lapo/package/rsync-3.0.9-1/src/rsyn - total size is 10 speedup is 0.09 - failed - git-annex: copy: 1 failed - -the file in tmp has no permissions at all: - - me@linux annex]$ ls -lart tmp/SHA256E-s10--937a89b559820f86588921ef3eb12c13074d078b62ef205bb597bf2e895408c3 - ----------. 1 me me 10 Oct 13 22:50 tmp/SHA256Es10--937a89b559820f86588921ef3eb12c13074d078b62ef205bb597bf2e895408c3 - -(just consider the following if the above makes any sense:) in another case (i cannot reproduce it now, possibly due to having upgraded git annex from some 2012 release), it happened that a failed download via copy/move from linux to windows (failed for permissions) would not be recorded as failed (on windows side), causing files to possibly be killed at the first subsequent drop command. - -my question is: are these 0-permissions on tmp files a bug or just due to some ignorance i did put in setting up the git/annex repo ? is a git/annex repo to be run solely as root/sudoer ? or shall i take any other step in configuring it ? - -technicalities: - -"client": windows version: - - git-annex version: 4.20131002-gf25991c - -"server": linux version: - - git-annex version: 3.20130207 +This bug report has been moved to [[bugs/cross_platform_permissions_woes]] +--[[Joey]] diff --git a/doc/git-annex.mdwn b/doc/git-annex.mdwn index dd266f67c..18c10be0c 100644 --- a/doc/git-annex.mdwn +++ b/doc/git-annex.mdwn @@ -960,9 +960,9 @@ built-in preferred content expression ddeveloped for that group. # SCHEDULED JOBS -The git-annex assistant daemon can be configured to run jobs at scheduled -times. This is similar to cron (and you can use cron if you prefer), but -has the advantage of being integrated into git-annex, and so being able +The git-annex assistant daemon can be configured to run scheduled jobs. +This is similar to cron and anacron (and you can use them if you prefer), +but has the advantage of being integrated into git-annex, and so being able to eg, fsck a repository on a removable drive when the drive gets connected. @@ -978,9 +978,9 @@ To schedule multiple jobs, separate them with "; ". Some examples: fsck self 30m every day at any time - fsck self 1h every day at 3 AM + fsck self 1h every month at 3 AM fsck self 1h on day 1 of every month at any time - fsck self 1h on day 1 of weeks divisible by 2 at any time + fsck self 1h every week divisible by 2 at any time # CONFIGURATION VIA .git/config |