Run node_modules binary on Lambda? - aws-lambda

I'm trying to compress an image on Lambda using mozjpeg, but am having some issues.
The binary doesn't have execute permissions, and so I'm getting this error:
"exports._errnoException (util.js:870:11)",
"ChildProcess.spawn (internal/child_process.js:298:11)",
"Object.exports.spawn (child_process.js:362:9)",
"ret.catch.module.exports.promise (/var/task/node_modules/imagemin-mozjpeg/node_modules/exec-buffer/node_modules/execa/index.js:132:26)",
"/var/task/node_modules/imagemin-mozjpeg/node_modules/exec-buffer/index.js:36:15"
When I try to fix the permissions, I get this error:
'chmod: changing permissions of ‘/var/task/node_modules/imagemin-mozjpeg/node_modules/mozjpeg/vendor/cjpeg’: Read-only file system\n'
Is there a way to get the binaries to execute within node_modules, or an alternative to executing them manually from the tmp dir without the benefit of their nodejs wrappers?

You need to ensure that the method you use to zip your files includes preserving or setting the execute permissions in Unix format. They will then be preserved when the file is unzipped from S3.

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How to reference other files within a lambda function?

In a handler of mine, I open a .mmdb file for doing geo lookups. In my package, I use ./ notation to reference the file since the handler and file are in the same directory. Now that I want to deploy the function using serverless, I've included the file within the include block in my serverless.yml file. Based on the package size that I'm seeing, the file is being uploaded, however I'm getting the error
open ./GeoLite2-City.mmdb: no such file or directory
when running the lambda. What is the proper way to get the location of the file from within my lambda?
I solved my problem by listing the contents of the directory that I was using in my lambda, using the code found in this answer: List directory in Go. After doing so I realized that I was in the root directory of the entire folder that I uploaded, not the directory of the specific package I was running the code from (containing main.go)

set execution permission to files deployed from windows to lambda using serverless

I'm using serveless to deploy lambda function, I need to add an executable bin file but when it is uploaded I don't have executable permissions, also I can't change permissions after deployed, the only thing I can do is to move the file to /tmp and there change the permissions, it works ok but adds a lot of overhead because I have to move the files on every Invoke becasue /tmp is ephemeral.
I know there is a known issue that windows&linux files permission are different, so if you zip a file on windows and unzip it on a linux machines you will have problem with permission, especialy with execution, and that happens when serverless deploys the files.
¿Anyone have a better workaround for this? (rather than "deploy from a windows machine")

Update Magento extension using ssh to extract .tgz tar file

I am trying to update a module to a newer version. In the past I have manually uploaded each file carefully into the new directory and overwritten older files using FTP. However I wanted to use SSH to try and do this more easily and without any file permission problems.
I have:
Uploaded the .tgz file to the root folder (/http) on the server
Logged into the server via SSH
Changed the directory to the correct directory
Run the following command: tar -zxvf fishpig_splash.tgz
In the command line I was then given a list of all the files that had been extracted. However if I use FTP to go to any of these files I can see that they are still the older version and have not been overwritten.
I was expecting that the files would extract into the correct directories and overwrite any that already existed. I have tested the extraction by creating a temporary directory and extracting into that and everything worked fine.
Is there another part to this script I need to use to overwrite the files?
Thanks
Glynn
Sorry this was just me being stupid! When extracting the tar file there was a subfolder within it for the extension, I completely missed it. I just went down a level in the file and zipped up the contents only then extracted them at the root and everything worked fine. Thanks for the help though!

Remove execute permission on file downloaded on a Mac

We have a web app running on a Windows server, which allows a user to do some processing and download the results. The result is a set of files which are dynamically created on the server and zipped into a single file for facilitating the download process.
Everything works fine on Windows, but when users download the file from the web app on a Mac, the contents of the zip file have the execute (chmod +x) permission set (I presume that the same happens on *NIX and Linux machines). This can, of course, be removed by running the 'chmod -x' command, but is there a way by which one can remove the execute permission on the files, so that when downloaded on a Mac, the files don't have the execute permission set by default?
I believe it's not possible - .zip files don't contain permissions, so on a Mac it has to default to "most permissive" (otherwise it's possible that there are applications inside the zip that wouldn't be marked as executable when they need to be).
tars, for instance, do record permissions, but that'd be a bit more difficult to create on a Windows server.

Can Ant's tar task set a Linux file permission even when the task is used on other platforms?

Starting with Ant 1.7, the TarFileSet is available which seems to allow file permission modifications in the tar archive.
Does this feature work platform-independent, so that I can for example create a tar file on Windows and set execution permissions for script files in this archive which will have this flag if the file is unpacked on Linux?
Yes, you can set permissions using tarfileset, using the filemode and dirmode attributes. This works when creating tar archives, even on windows.
Rather annoyingly though, the untar task does not support the reverse operation that you might want:
File permissions will not be restored
on extracted files.
But the permisions are restored fine if you use tar -xf, for example.

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