Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
- Subject: Re: crontab and rsync in Sierra Era
- From: Jeremy Huddleston Sequoia <email@hidden>
- Date: Sun, 26 Feb 2017 11:58:05 -0800
> On Feb 24, 2017, at 07:53, pagani laurent <email@hidden> wrote:
>
> It is turned off already. I have a number of softs which would not work with SIP on.
File bug reports with the vendors of that software. Can you enumerate them for me?
>>> I have no idea why the crontab launch prevents rsync to write and I don’t know how I can test that.
>>
>> I'm wondering about SIP ... if you don't have that turned off already,
>> experiment and see if it changes this.
>>
>> https://www.howtogeek.com/230424/how-to-disable-system-integrity-protection-on-a-mac-and-why-you-shouldnt/
>>
>> SIP is a great feature in principle, but Apple needs to put a great deal
>> more tweaking into it if they'd like people to be able to use it.
>> It breaks standard software-development scenarios for instance. I also
>> don't like the fact that what it does is largely undocumented --- the
>> available documentation only states that it prevents writes to certain
>> parts of the filesystem, but it screws around with far more than that.
>> They might well have done something that's affecting your problem.
People tend to blame SIP for everything these days, and most of the time, the issue has nothing to do with SIP. If you have specific concerns about it misbehaving, please be specific and file a radar about your particular issue / need / use case. I'd be happy to evangelize it for you. FWIW, I leave SIP enabled and don't have much of a problem.
--Jeremy
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