----- Original Message -----
Sent: Tuesday, September 11, 2001 11:11
AM
Subject: Setting up an rsync server
I am trying to set up an rsync server on windows 2000
and red hat linux 7.1, but unsuccesfully. I haven't been able to find detailed
information in the man pages about this issue, which makes it quite hard to
figure out. So far I have set up an ftp server and a http server, which I
guess would be required for rsync to transfer the files through. Secondly I
have created the required files: rsyncd.conf, rsyncd.motd, rsyncd.secrets,
rsyncd.log, rsync.lock and rsyncd.pid. Rsyncd.conf looks like
this:
motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
log file =
/var/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
lock file =
/var/run/rsync.lock
[ftp]
path = /
comment = D
drive
uid = nobody
gid =
nobody
read only = no
list =
yes
auth users = anonymous
When running rsync --daemon in one shell and rsync
my-global-ip-address:: in another I receive the welcome message and the ftp
module to which I should be able to log into. But when issuing this command
rsync my-global-ip-address::ftp/* all I get is a hung shell. What is the
solutuion to this problem? Could it be that some files are
missing, or that some settings have not been set yet? This is in windows 2000.
In linux I am not even able to receive the welcome message. I guess it is
because the rsync daemon isn't running at all, even though I have tried
to start it using rsync --daemon and through inetd. Any help is
welcome.
Sincerely
Kasper
