Transmission Daemon changes file permissions!?

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maki.ato
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Transmission Daemon changes file permissions!?

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Hi all,

I'm running Transmission Daemon on my NAS box (DNS-323). I'm using v2.42 built by Kylek.
I'm also running a nightly cron snapshot job (using rsync -ahHix --fuzzy --stats --link-dest= ...) to backup the completed torrents, among other things. I just noticed that the rsync log contains some strange entries: It backed-up files that are already backed-up because of permission changes.
Here's one such example

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sh-3.2# ls -li 20111120_035001/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi 20111119_035000/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi 20111118_035000/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi
94340 -rw-r--r-- 6 nobody nobody 889026560 May 13  2011 20111118_035000/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi
94340 -rw-r--r-- 6 nobody nobody 889026560 May 13  2011 20111119_035000/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi
93669 -rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 889026560 May 13  2011 20111120_035001/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi
sh-3.2#
sh-3.2# ls -l /mnt/HD_a2/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi
-rwxrwxrwx 1 nobody nobody 889026560 May 13  2011 /mnt/HD_a2/Bittorrent/complete/BLACK_SUN.avi
It seems something is changing file permissions, and It's not me, i can tell you that much. Some of these files, like this avi, I haven't accessed in months.
The only files that changes permissions are from completed torrents, which I keep seeding. None of my other non-torrrented backed-up files are changed. It makes no sense. Just a random bunch of permissions changed.

Can this be the doing of Transmission Daemon?
maki.ato
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Re: Transmission Daemon changes file permissions!?

Post by maki.ato »

I figured it out, I think. It's stupid Windows, changing permissions of files when I access the FOLDERS over CIFS.
maki.ato
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Re: Transmission Daemon changes file permissions!?

Post by maki.ato »

I think I'll change umask to zero to stop this from happening.
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