John Morgan Salomon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm hoping someone could give me a quick tip or two on getting rsync > working as a Win2k service. I'm not real proficient with Win2k, so > be gentle. The posts I could > find in the archive all seeem to have gotten past this basic problem! > > I've installed the latest Cygwin, as well as the Cygwin rsync package. > > cygrunsrv -I "rsyncd" -d "Rsync daemon" -p /usr/bin/rsync.exe -a > "--config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --daemon" > installs the service; rsyncd.exe --config=/etc/rsyncd.conf --daemon > runs it from a bash shell, > but I can't seem to start it either using cygrunsrv -S "rsyncd", or > from the Services manager. > > I've also tried with --no-detach and -e CYGWIN='binmode tty ntsec' on > the cygrunsrv command line, > as described at http://acd.ucar.edu/~fredrick/win2k/rsync/ > > Lastly, I tried getting it running via srvany.exe (from the Win2k > resource kit) and srvinstw, with > even less intelligible output.
cygrunsrv is definitely the way to go, not srvany. --no-detach is *required*. --config=/etc/rsyncd.conf should be a no-op, as that is the default path to rsyncd.conf. Is there any output in /var/log/rsyncd.log ? Post your rsyncd.conf and the output of "mount -m". Max. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
