Re: FAQ: Moving files between two machines using rsync

[Andrew Liles]

Although not an rsync expert, I think your problem is in the way you 
reference the remote machine.

rsync will either work on a remote machine gaining access via a shell 
(which SSH recently became the default) or will use the rsync daemon.

Firstly, your configuration steps so far have setup an rsync daemon so you 
should have specified the syntax to connect to the daemon.  This is achieve 
with a double colon "::" as opposed to the normal single colon.

Secondly, if you use the the rsync demon you must refer to a "module" which 
in your case is "tmp" which just happens to be the same as the directory 
name.  The syntax for referring to a module does not include a leading slash.

So I suggest you try the following - just 1 character different:

rsync -vz \
        --password-file=/export/home/raub/nogo \
        /export/home/raub/sync-me \
        [EMAIL PROTECTED]::tmp
At 16:18 16/02/2004, Mauricio Tavares wrote:
        Easy rsync question:  to try to learn a bit of rsync, I am setting
up katri (netbsd box) as my rsync server (where I would sync to) and
kushana (Solaris 9 box) as the machine I will be syncing from.  BTW, both
are in my LAN and their respective /etc/hosts know their names, with or
withoug the domain part.  So, in katri, I have:
katri# cat /etc/rsyncd.conf
motd file = /etc/motd
max connections = 25
syslog facility = local3
[tmp]
        comment = temporary file area
        path = /tmp
        read only = no
        list = yes
        hosts allow = kushana
        auth users = raub
        secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
katri# cat /etc/rsyncd.secrets
raub:pogoland
katri#
<The password here is just something to get me going; I can change it to
something better down the line =) >
I also added rsync to /etc/services and /etc/inetd.conf:

katri# grep rsync /etc/services
rsync           873/tcp                 # Rsync server
katri# grep rsync /etc/inetd.conf
rsync           stream  tcp nowait      root    /usr/local/bin/rsync
rsyncd
--daemon
katri#
But, just to be paranoid, I decided to run it manually in server mode:

katri# ps aux | grep rsync
root  8610  4.8  1.5  372  616 ?? Ss   11:00AM   0:00.42 rsync --daemon
root  8612  0.0  0.6  128  232 p0 R+   11:00AM   0:00.17 grep rsync
katri#
In kushana, I created a password file, nogo:

[EMAIL PROTECTED]>cat /export/home/raub/nogo
pogoland
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
and am going to try to move the file /export/home/raub/sync-me to
katri:/tmp.
This is what I did and what I got back:
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>rsync -vz --password-file=/export/home/raub/nogo
/export/home/raub/sync-me [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/tmp
katri.kushana.com: Connection refused
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(165)
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
What I am doing wrong here?

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