AutoSYNC Software User's Guide (Update 16)
OSS File Synchronization
HP AutoSYNC User’s Guide—522580-017
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Changing Default Ownership of Symbolic Links
The SECURE option for OSS files specifies read, write and execute access, for the 
user (owner of the file or directory), the group and others: “rwxrwxrwx”. The complete 
security string must be entered. The accepted values are:
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“r” grants read access
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“w” grants write access
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“x” grants execute access
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“-” denies access for read, write, and execute settings.
Ownership of synchronized symbolic links is a special case. By default, the owner of a 
synchronized symbolic link is always the user and not the owner of the source 
symbolic link or the OWNER specified in the SYNCHRONIZE command option.
Likewise, the group ID of synchronized symbolic links is, by default, the group ID of the 
user and not the group ID of the source symbolic link or the group ID specified in the 
SYNCHRONIZE command OWNERGROUP option.
You can change this behavior as described below.
Changing Default Ownership of Symbolic Links
To set the owner of a synchronized symbolic link to a user different than the user 
performing the synchronization or to set the owner to the user ID specified through the 
OWNER or OWNERGROUP option, the destination ASYSYNC process, or 
ASYSYNCP if synchronizing over TCP/IP, has to be privileged. A privileged ASYSYNC 
or ASYSYNCP if synchronizing over TCP/IP, enables AutoSYNC to switch to the user 
ID of the source symbolic link or to the specified OWNER when AutoSYNC creates the 
link.
This feature is only supported if the user is SUPER.SUPER (255,255).
To make the destination ASYSYNC, or ASYSYNCP if synchronizing over TCP/IP, a 
privileged process, perform the following steps on the destination system after the files 
have been moved to the AUTOSYNC subvolume:
1. In BIND issue the following commands:
2. At the TACL prompt, SQL compile ASYSYNCP:
ADD * FROM ASYSYNC
SET LIKE ASYSYNC
ALTER CALLABLE^LOG^DOWN, CALLABLE ON
SET SAVEABEND ON
BUILD ASYSYNC!
SQLCOMP/IN ASYSYNCP/NOREGISTER ON










