Dave,
Thanks much. Up and running & logging successfully with rsync in daemon
mode.
One general question - what's the benefit of using rsh/ssh as transport
versus using rsync in daemon mode?
Also , I've received a error similar to the following multiple times --
what might this be indicative of?
Invalid file index -324461374 (count=32262)
Thanks again.
Peter
Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> on 06/15/2001 09:42:50 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Multiple questions (rsync hangs, logging config, etc.)
On Thu, Jun 14, 2001 at 05:26:29PM -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
> I'm new to rsync and I'm trying to use rsync-2.4.6 to sync web content
> between 2 AIX (4.3.3.0) boxes (from SERVERA to SERVERB).
>
> I've gone through the man pages for rsync and rsyncd.conf, searched the
web
> site and browsed several months worth of the mailing list, but I still
> can't figure out which end is up.
>
> I've had rsync working successfully on a small scale replicate some test
> directories (100+ files in 10 directories).
>
> Now that I'm trying to run rsync to replicate 32000+ at once, I'm having
> several problems.
>
> I initiate rsync with the following script from SERVERA:
> ==> cat /opt/rysnc/sync.sh
> /opt/rsync/rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/rsh --rsync-path=/opt/rsync/rsync
> --delete --timeout=0 --progress --verbose
> --exclude-from=/opt/rsync/exclude.dat --delete-excluded --recursive
> --links --hard-links --perms --owner --group --times /www/www.xyz.com/
> SERVERB:/www/www.xyz.com
> ==>
If you use a single colon for "SERVERB:", you are using the default rsh
mode and not the daemon mode. Can you rsh as root from SERVERA to
SERVERB? To talk to the daemon, you use "SERVERB::". If you can use rsh,
I think it would probably be better to do that and just forget about the
daemon.
> My /opt/rsync/exclude.dat file is as follows:
> ==>cat exclude.dat
> - /logs/
> - /logs/*
> ==>
>
> 1) Running rsync as root, rsync appears to hang, as follows.
> ==>./sync.sh
> building file list ... done
> ^C
> ==>
>
> Sometimes the rsync ends with an error message (but I haven't found any
> reference to all of the various error codes and what they mean. Can
someone
> point me in the right direction?)
There are known problems with verbose mode causing hanging in rsync 2.4.6;
try it without to see if that helps. I'm not familiar with AIX; perhaps
there's an additional problem with rsync on that operating system. Rsync
does tend to drive TCP very hard and has revealed bugs in several vendors'
implementations.
> 2) How do I configure logging correctly?
>
> I initiate rsync as a daemon on SERVERB as follows:
> ==> /opt/rsync/rsync --daemon
>
> I have the rsyncd.conf on SERVERB as follows:
> ==>cat /etc/rsyncd.conf
> # /etc/rsyncd.conf
> log file = /var/adm/rsync.log
> use chroot = no
> max connections = 1
> pid file = /etc/rsync.pid
> transfer logging = true
> [www]
> path = /www
> comment = WWW Content
> strict modes = true
> root@SERVERB:/
> ==>
If you do intend to write to the rsync daemon, you will at least need to
add
uid = root
gid = root
read only = no
> My /etc/syslog.conf contains the following line:
> daemon.debug,info,notice /var/adm/rsync.log
When you set "log file" in rsyncd.conf, syslog is completely bypassed so
there's no need to put a line in syslog.conf.
> The only thing that appears in this log is:
> ==>tail -f /var/adm/rsync.log
> 2001/06/14 14:49:57 [30764] rsyncd version 2.4.6 starting
> 2001/06/14 16:08:44 [29374] rsyncd version 2.4.6 starting
There's nothing else because you're not connecting to the daemon.
> 3) Wouldn't a search engine for the mailing list archives be a valuable
> addition? Especilly for newbies like myself?
I've wished for that too (and I'm no rsync newbie :-)).
- Dave Dykstra
