I have a seedbox and I sync files from it to my local unraid server using LFTP.

 

However, when it gets sync'd over, the permissions are wrong:

 

Folders: root:root with 775

Files: root:root with 664

 

To sync the files, I have a script that runs every 10 mins with cron (using Flock to protect against long file transfers).

 

What's the right way to solve this so the ownership and permission are set correctly?

 

 

I can see two possible solutions.

 

Either add

chown

and

chmod

commands to your script to make the ownership and permissions of the files it processes what you want them to be, or run the script as the required user instead of as root.

 

I'd say the latter is the preferred route. Any user can have a crontab file, not just root. It's documented here and here and it works with a general Linux distribution, though I've never done it with unRAID.