On Wed, Nov 24, 2021 at 11:09:08AM +0100, Thorsten Schöning wrote: > Hi everyone, > > for various reasons I put /var/spool/cron/crontabs under version > control. I have one Ubuntu 12.04 legacy system running SVN 1.7.22 and > recognized that after committing changes to the file for ROOT, it's > permissions changed. > > > 655748 4 -rw------- 1 root crontab 1597 Nov 24 10:09 root > > vs. > > > 655748 4 -rw-r--r-- 1 root crontab 1597 Nov 24 10:09 root > > This made CRON ignoring the file with the following message: > > > Nov 23 12:56:01 [...] cron[1346]: (root) INSECURE MODE (mode 0600 expected) > > (crontabs/root)
Subversion does not store file permission mode bits, except that the "executable" bit is preserved via the svn:mime-type property. You will want to use a wrapper tool such as 'asvn' for this use case: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/subversion/trunk/contrib/client-side/asvn Cheers, Stefan
