Hello. I'm trying something from the rsync man page and it is failing.
From http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync.html: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM
It is sometimes useful to be able to set up file transfers using rsync server capabilities on the remote machine, while still using rsh or ssh for transport. [...]
From the user's perspective, using rsync in this way is the same as using it to connect to an rsync server, except that you must explicitly set the remote shell program on the command line with --rsh=COMMAND. (Setting RSYNC_RSH in the environment will not turn on this functionality.)
In order to distinguish between the remote-shell user and the rsync server user, you can use '-l user' on your remote-shell command:
rsync -av --rsh="ssh -l ssh-user" [EMAIL PROTECTED]::module[/path] local-path
The "ssh-user" will be used at the ssh level; the "rsync-user" will be used to check against the rsyncd.conf on the remote host.
[...]
RUNNING AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM
[...I followed these instructions on the server...]
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I am trying to do this: connect to an rsyncd server, using ssh as the transport. That is different from running rsync as not-a-server using ssh.
Whenever I try to connect, following the man page example almost verbatim, this is what I get:
[EMAIL PROTECTED] testing_rsync]$ rsync -av --rsh="ssh -l rsync" [EMAIL PROTECTED]::test ./
WARNING: --rsh or -e option ignored when connecting to rsync daemon
rsync: failed to connect to dev: Connection refused
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97)
The box named "dev" is the one I am trying to connect to. The user named "rsync" is the username on the host "dev". As per the man page, I have set up my ssh "~rsync/.ssh/authorized_keys" with a "command=" line for the key with which I am connecting. That "command=" line launches the rsync daemon with the trailing period ('.'), as per the man page.
I think the crux of the problem is that rsync is still interpreting the double colon to mean "connect to dev on port 873 using the rsync protocol". I think this because of this warning message:
WARNING: --rsh or -e option ignored when connecting to rsync daemon
But I am NOT trying to connect to the rsync daemon, I am trying to connect to the sshd daemon, which will then look at ~rsync/.ssh/authorized_keys, run this command (after auth):
rsync --server --daemon --config=/home/rsync/rsyncd.conf .
(Note the trailing period,) and then do the file synchronisation with all the cool rsyncd daemon features such chroot() and a secrets file.
In summary: the man page says I can use --rsh with the double colon rsyncd server syntax, but rsync says that I cannot. Please advise.
This is on "dev", a Mandrake Linux 9.0 box: -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [EMAIL PROTECTED] rsync]$ rsync --version rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26 Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others <http://rsync.samba.org/> Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles, IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
This is on my laptop (the client I'm trying to connect from), a Mandrake Linux 9.1 box:
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[EMAIL PROTECTED] testing_rsync]$ rsync --version
rsync version 2.5.5 protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums
rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY. This is free software, and you are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions. See the GNU General Public Licence for details. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Thank You, Derek
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