Hi.
On Fri, 01 Jan 2021 09:57:38 +0000 Chris Green via rsync wrote: > My backup system crashed a couple of nights ago due to a power cut > (can't really blame it!) and I went and restarted it after the power > came back. However, as I note above, files in /home/chris/tmp/pid > aren't cleared out so rsync refused to run when systemd attempted to > start it up. > I guess the pid file should either be in /tmp or somewhere in > /run/user. However shouldn't there be some sort of sensible default > if it isn't set in rsyncd.conf? Since rsyncd is launched by systemd, I would say that no pid file is needed: systemd will prevent simultaneous launch of rsyncd. Can you try without spicifying "pid file" in rsyncd.conf ? What is the content of the rsyncd.service file on your system ? On Fedora it is a system (not user) service: cat /lib/systemd/system/rsyncd.service [Unit] Description=fast remote file copy program daemon ConditionPathExists=/etc/rsyncd.conf Wants=network-online.target After=network-online.target [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/rsyncd ExecStart=/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --no-detach "$OPTIONS" [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target -- francis -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the mailing list. To unsubscribe or change options: https://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html