why the mode of files was changed when copy the file to remote computer.

[Simon Zhang]

Hello,

Recently, I have a problem about Ansible. In the current folder "test" contains a file "aaa.sh" with file mode "-rwxrwxr-x". I copy the directory  using the example playbook.

---
- name: Copy file
  hosts: 192.168.8.22
  remote_user: root
  tasks:
    - name: copy test
      copy: src=./test dest=/work/

Then , I check this file in the hosts "192.168.8.22". The file mode is "-rw-r--r--". 

Why the file mode was changed?

 How to do rightly?

[Michael DeHaan]

If you want to control the file permissions when placing a file, also be aware you have access to the "mode" parameter.

The source permissions on the local filesystem are not used.

If you are instead saying when replacing the file on the destination that the permissions change, let us know.

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[Simon Zhang]

Hi, michael. 

Thank you for your reply. But I still do not understand.

"The source permissions on the local filesystem are not used."

When I copy some file on the local filesystem to remote locations, I may use this method like "copy: src=./test dest=/work/". 

But the problem is that there are many files with different permissions in a folder "./test", each file separately set mode too much trouble.

Should we do it like the following example?

- copy: src=./test/aa1.sh dest=/work/test/ mode=700

- copy: src=./test/aa2.sh dest=/work/test/ mode=600

- copy: src=./test/aa3.sh dest=/work/test/ mode=777

- copy: src=./test/aa4.sh dest=/work/test/ mode=700

- copy: src=./test/aa5.sh dest=/work/test/ mode=600

- copy: src=./test/aa6.sh dest=/work/test/ mode=777

- copy: src=./test/aa7.sh dest=/work/test/ mode=700

This should not be reasonable.

[Mark McCoy]

If you have specific requirements for each file, why not do this:

-  copy: src="./test/{{ item.fname }}" dest=/work/test mode={{ item.fmode }} 

   with_items:

     - { fname: 'aa1.sh', fmode: '0750' }

     - { fname: 'aa2.txt', fmode: '0644' }

 

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[Simon Zhang]

But I just want to specify the same file permissions for the local file and remote file.

I have dozens of GB files, hundreds of thousands of files.

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[Matt Martz]

Perhaps you should instead look at the synchronize module instead of copy:  http://docs.ansible.com/synchronize_module.html

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[Simon Zhang]

2014-08-30 2:10 GMT+08:00 Matt Martz <ma...@sivel.net>:

Perhaps you should instead look at the synchronize module instead of copy:  http://docs.ansible.com/synchronize_module.html

May I try it. But some of the trouble to set the "rsync" server.

 

[Mark McCoy]

You didn't say that you had hundred of thousands of files, you gave an example with 7 files. If you have many more than that, perhaps another method like the "synchronize" module would be better.  Also, do you have to copy the files or can you NFS mount the directory to each machine?

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On Fri, Aug 29, 2014 at 1:06 PM, Simon Zhang <hap...@gmail.com> wrote:

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[Simon Zhang]

Yes. I have to copy the files to each machine. I will try the "synchronize" method tomorrow. Thanks for the advice.

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