Re: endless copy of symlinks and wrong permissions

It has been too long to recall what this problem was about. Can you 
remind me how this started? I am also not quite sure what you are 
saying works and what doesn't in 2.2.7

Enrico Scholz wrote:
> Mark Burgess <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>> Enrico, this works perfectly for me with the current svn version. I
>> have not had time to check 2.2.3
> 
> ok, did another try and updated to recent 2.2.7 but problem still
> persists.
> 
> 
> It seems that server provides wrong information about the copied file;
> e.g. when '/srv/cfengine-masterfiles/KEYS/radius/radiusd-ssl.key'
> is a symlink to '../SSL.KEY/radius.bigo.ensc.de.key', then a
> 
> | /srv/cfengine-masterfiles/KEYS/radius/radiusd-ssl.key/radiusd-ssl.key  dest=/etc/pki/radius/key/radiusd-srv.key server=${policyhost}
> |                                        o=root g=radiusd m=0440
> |                                        linktype=copy action=warn
> 
> statement creates the following output with 'cfagent -dddd'
> 
> 
> | GetCachedStatData(/srv/cfengine-masterfiles/KEYS/radius/radiusd-ssl.key)
> | ...
> | Protoreply: (OK: 1 511 511 0 0 1675 1214739102 1201363036 1201363036 1 2997 1 64772)
> | Mode = 511,511
> | OK: type=1
> |  mode=777
> |  lmode=777
> |  uid=0
> |  gid=0
> |  size=1675
> |  atime=1214739102
> |  mtime=1201363036 ino=2997 nlnk=1, dev=64772
> | RecvSocketStream(8)
> |     (Concatenated 8 from stream)
> | Transaction Receive [t 37][]
> | RecvSocketStream(37)
> |     (Concatenated 37 from stream)
> | Linkbuffer: OK:../SSL.KEY/radius.bigo.ensc.de.key
> 
> 
> This means, that server says that requested file is a symlink with mode
> 0777 which points to a file with mode 0777.  Latter is wrong.
> 
> 
> Then, client continues to ImageCopy (image.c) and the
> 
> |   if ((ip->force == 'y') || ok_to_copy || S_ISLNK(sourcestatbuf.st_mode))  /* Always check links */
> 
> check always succeeds there (due to the S_ISLNK test).
> 
> 
> cfservd 2.1.14 returns
> 
> | Protoreply: (OK: 0 420 511 0 0 1675 1214563915 1183282624 1211186176 0 6214 1 64770)
> | Mode = 420,511
> | OK: type=0
> |  mode=644
> |  lmode=777
> 
> for such files and recent clients (2.2.7) work correctly.
> 
> [http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.sysutils.cfengine.bugs/2203]
> 
> 
> 
> Enrico
> 
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