CentOS - Jul 2016 - Mysterious change in directory ownership and removal of the execute bit on directory

In the following sequence of commands, you can see directory /7.2.1511/
will change of ownership to another user and the execute bit is removed.
This user, lbfay, is actually my own user but I am not logged on the server
while running rsync with root.

[root at ctsrepocos ~]# who
root     tty1         2016-07-22 10:40


[root at ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/
total 476
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 apache apache      9 Dec 15  2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/
*drwxr-xr-x*. 13 *apache apache   *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511


[root at ctsrepocos ~]# /usr/bin/rsync -a -vvv --delete --delete-excluded
--exclude "local" --exclude "isos" --exclude
"*.iso" --exclude "xen4"
--exclude "*.i686.*" --exclude "i386" --exclude
"atomic" rsync://
centos.mirror.iweb.ca/centos/7.2.1511 /share/CentOS


[root at ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/
total 476
lrwxrwxrwx.  1 apache apache      9 Dec 15  2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/
*drw-r--r--. *13 *lbfay  lbfay    *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511



Someone has an idea of what is going on?

Thanks,

Dohhh...

-a implies -p, -o and -g which preserve permissions, owner and group.
Therefore I chose to use:  -r -l -t --devices --specials

For the benefits of everyone...


On Fri, Jul 22, 2016 at 12:06 PM, Bernard Fay <bernard.fay at gmail.com>
wrote:
> In the following sequence of commands, you can see directory /7.2.1511/
> will change of ownership to another user and the execute bit is removed.
> This user, lbfay, is actually my own user but I am not logged on the server
> while running rsync with root.
>
> [root at ctsrepocos ~]# who
> root     tty1         2016-07-22 10:40
>
>
> [root at ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/
> total 476
> lrwxrwxrwx.  1 apache apache      9 Dec 15  2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/
> *drwxr-xr-x*. 13 *apache apache   *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511
>
>
> [root at ctsrepocos ~]# /usr/bin/rsync -a -vvv --delete --delete-excluded
> --exclude "local" --exclude "isos" --exclude
"*.iso" --exclude "xen4"
> --exclude "*.i686.*" --exclude "i386" --exclude
"atomic" rsync://
> centos.mirror.iweb.ca/centos/7.2.1511 /share/CentOS
>
>
> [root at ctsrepocos ~]# ls -l /share/CentOS/
> total 476
> lrwxrwxrwx.  1 apache apache      9 Dec 15  2015 7 -> 7.2.1511/
> *drw-r--r--. *13 *lbfay  lbfay    *4096 May 18 12:48 7.2.1511
>
>
>
> Someone has an idea of what is going on?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
>