Hi, I'm trying to start rsync as a daemon however is always fail, any clue? Here is my /etc/rsync.conf: [test] path = /tmp/ comment = Testing Here is the strace of the execution: strace rsync --daemon -v execve("/usr/bin/rsync", ["rsync", "--daemon", "-v"], [/* 56 vars */]) = 0 brk(0) = 0x8078ea0 old_mmap(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x40014000 open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory) open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=31265, ...}) = 0 old_mmap(NULL, 31265, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40015000 close(3) = 0 open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY) = 3 fstat(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=4101324, ...}) = 0 read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\210\212"..., 4096) = 4096 old_mmap(NULL, 1001564, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x4001d000 mprotect(0x4010a000, 30812, PROT_NONE) = 0 old_mmap(0x4010a000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 0xec000) = 0x4010a000 old_mmap(0x4010e000, 14428, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x4010e000 close(3) = 0 mprotect(0x4001d000, 970752, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0 mprotect(0x4001d000, 970752, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0 munmap(0x40015000, 31265) = 0 personality(PER_LINUX) = 0 getpid() = 4715 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR1, {0x804f730, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGUSR2, {0x804f750, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 time(NULL) = 981556881 getuid() = 0 umask(0) = 027 rt_sigaction(SIGCHLD, {SIG_IGN}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGINT, {0x804a240, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGPIPE, {0x804a240, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGHUP, {0x804a240, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 rt_sigaction(SIGTERM, {0x804a240, [], SA_RESTART|0x4000000}, {SIG_DFL}, 8) = 0 getcwd("/home/caesar/nicolas", 4094) = 21 getsockopt(0, SOL_SOCKET, SO_TYPE, 0xbffff480, 0xbffff484) = -1 ENOTSOCK (Socket operation on non-socket) fork() = 4716 _exit(0) = ? - Nicolas Roy