On Tuesday 14 November 2006 13:13, John Blinka wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> I'm rebuilding a gentoo box from a disk failure, and everything is working
> (I think) except restoring its ability to act as my local rsync mirror.
> I've
> followed the instructions in http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml,
> (and they worked fine, of course, before the disk crash)
> but clients trying to sync with it get this error message:
[SNIP]
> @ERROR: Unknown module 'gentoo-portage'
> rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at
> main.c(1296) [rec
> eiver=2.6.8]
[SNIP]
> The /etc/rsyncd.conf file contains:
[SNIP]
> #[gentoo-portage]
[SNIP]

That shouldn't be commented. Remove the leading #.

> Any ideas about what's going on?

Also there's a guide at http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/rsync.xml

-- 
Bo Andresen

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