SaltStack: How to work around "file.recurse doesn't preserve permissions"?

Question

How to work around Recursive directory management doesn't preserve permissions?

I want to copy all files in (local) /monitoring/files/etc to /etc on the minion.

copy_files_in_etc:
  file.recurse:
    - source:
      - salt://monitoring/files/etc
    - name: /etc
    - template: jinja

Above snippets works, but I am missing the executable bit for some files.

For example scripts in /etc/cron.daily should be executable.

What is the most simple way to work around this?

I search a way to make all files matching this expression to be executable:

/etc/cron.(daily|hourly|monthly|weekly/)

Answer 1

It looks like this was fixed.

copy_files_in_etc:
  file.recurse:
    - source:
    - salt://monitoring/files/etc
    - name: /etc
    - template: jinja
    - file_mode: keep

Search for file_mode at the following link: https://docs.saltstack.com/en/latest/ref/states/all/salt.states.file.html#salt.states.file.recurse

This will cause the files to have the same mode as on the salt master.

Answer 2

You can use file_mode and dir_mode. In your case, file_mode should be enough.

copy_files_in_etc:
  file.recurse:
    - source:
      - salt://monitoring/files/etc
    - name: /etc
    - template: jinja
    - file_mode: '0755'