Multi-poller script sync - permissions

[eschoeller]

I've found that scripts synchronized to a remote poller from the main poller lose the executable bit that was set. In some cases these scripts are called directly from within Cacti, without an interpreter prepended to the data input command. So, the remote poller is unable to get any output from them, since the O/S returns a "permission denied" when the script is called directly (aka without a /bin/bash or /bin/perl). Is this by design? What's the best fix? I added a +x to the first script I had trouble with, but I suspect that the automagic sync will reset that back to -x at some point?

[eschoeller]

As an example .. on the Main poller:

-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     root   2486 Apr 17  2017 tomcat-jvm-snmp.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     root   2274 Apr 17  2017 tomcat-jvm-snmp.pl.20131118
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     root   2022 Apr 17  2017 tomcatstats-test.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     root   2493 Apr 17  2017 tomcatstats.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root    198 Apr 17  2017 unix_processes.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root    405 Apr 17  2017 unix_tcp_connections.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root    386 Apr 17  2017 unix_users.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root    849 Apr 17  2017 weatherbug.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 root     root    231 Apr 17  2017 webhits.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     root   3566 Apr 17  2017 ws_apachestats.local.pl
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root     root   3315 Apr 17  2017 ws_apachestats.pl

And on the remote poller:

-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   2486 Apr 13 00:46 tomcat-jvm-snmp.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   2274 Apr 13 00:46 tomcat-jvm-snmp.pl.20131118
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   2022 Apr 13 00:46 tomcatstats-test.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   2493 Apr 13 00:46 tomcatstats.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data    198 Feb 25 18:12 unix_processes.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data    405 Feb 25 18:12 unix_tcp_connections.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data    386 Feb 25 18:12 unix_users.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data    849 Feb 25 18:12 weatherbug.pl
-rw-rw-r--  1 www-data www-data    231 Feb 25 18:12 webhits.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   3566 Apr 13 00:46 ws_apachestats.local.pl
-rw-r--r--  1 www-data www-data   3315 Apr 13 00:46 ws_apachestats.pl

[netniV]

I have created a feature patch for 1.2 to include this. Are you able to test out the change? It is not currently merged with the base development branch yet.

[eschoeller]

I'm still back at 1.1.36 right now

[netniV]

In that case, I'll close this for now. If you do get a change to try it out in a test environment that would be great.