Question

I have a bash script to sync a Zendframework site between two servers, but for some reason one file doesn’t get the correct owner/group. Since the file then becomes unreadable by apache the site goes down on that server.

On the first server I have the following file:

-rwxrwx--- 1 monit www-data 4184 2012-03-14 05:39 application.ini

This should be exactly the same on the second server since both the user monit and the group www-data exists there to, but this is not the case as seen below.

-rwxrwx--- 1 monit monit    4184 2012-03-14 05:39 application.ini

This file is the only one affected. All other files gets the correct permissions, owners and groups. The rsync command is as follows

rsync -az --delete --stats  --include="document_root/.*" --exclude=".*" SERVER1 SERVER2

rsync is version 3.0.3, Server 1 is a Ubuntu 9.04 and Server2 is Debian 5.0

At the moment the problem is circumvented by setting the permission on the original file to -rwxrwxr–. The synced file will still have the wrong group, but is at least readable.

Answer 1

Check that monit user is in www-data group on the target server.
Try rsyncing the problematic file only, while running rsync on the target server and add one or more -v options, then look at the output:

$ groups monit |grep www-data
$ rsync -avv source_host:path/to/application.ini ./application.ini