A while back, there was a patch for a "write only" option in
rsyncd.conf[1]. I use rsync for network backups, and I would be
slightly more comfortable if other hosts couldn't read their backups
(even though they can clobber them). Imagine that I scrub some
sensitive data just before someone steal
When using the rsync server without chroot, the --link-dest and
--compare-dest options are almost useless. This is because
sanitize_paths is called on the link-dest directory, stripping out
leading dots and slashes. Thus, the only possiblitiy for a link-dest
directory is under the target director
The exact filename tested against include/exclude patterns is not always
obvious, and the documentation is somewhat ambiguous about it. This
bites particularly when using patterns starting with '/'. I just spent
an hour being confused by this. Here are some suggested edits to the
documentation.
I'd still prefer to see something like a --total-progress option that
displayed the percentage of the total synchronization that had been
completed, rather than the percentage of progress of the current file.
In the occasions where I'm hovering impatiently over an rsync waiting
for it to finish
I would line to see a -progress_time {sec} type option,
which wil only show the progress of a file after that file has already
taken more than {sec} to transfer.
This could also ne a useful addition to the compond -P option, say with
a argument of 5 seconds.
Situation...
I use RSync all the t
On Thu, Mar 25, 2004 at 10:26:24AM -0500, Szymon M. Rusinkiewicz wrote:
> I have noticed that the contents of per-directory .cvsignore files apply
> outside their subtrees when using --cvs-exclude in rsync 2.6.0.
First off, thanks for the complete bug report -- it was very well done.
However, the
yes
You have to have a "uid = 0" in the rsyncd.conf file for that module,
since only root can give away files, and also bypass all (except over NFS,
etc.) file protections.
For (insert diety's name here)'s sake, don't use "/" for a path, and don't
leave it un-chrooted, unless you're putting up
There are any number of reasons you might still need or want rsync to
run as root. For one, if you're rsyncing *to* the remote machine rather
than *from* it, you might want to preserve access times, permissions,
and ownerships - and you've got to be root on the remote system in order
to do tha
I'm not the command line guru, but it is my understanding that if you've
got rsyncd running at boot time, any user can rsync over ssh to his or
her home directories without requiring root access.
I can't imagine a time when you'd need them to access other directories,
except maybe /var/html and
You can use the --rsh="/path/to/command/here" argument in conjunction
with a simple shell script wrapper that calls rsync using sudo.
Jim Salter
JRS Systems
Paul Galbraith wrote:
Is it possible to configure rsync in server mode, to gain access to root
protected files, without the user having to
Is it possible to configure rsync in server mode, to gain access to root
protected files, without the user having to log in as root through ssh?
I'd prefer to login as a regular user through ssh and access an rysnc
server on the host that's running as root. As far as I can tell,
however, that'
I have noticed that the contents of per-directory .cvsignore files apply
outside their subtrees when using --cvs-exclude in rsync 2.6.0. In the
results below, notice how dir1/.cvsignore is applying to a file in dir2.
There is no ~/.cvsignore, and the CVSIGNORE variable is unset.
% ls -AFR
.:
dir1
On Wed 24 Mar 2004, Wayne Davison wrote:
>
> Yes, I was justing thinking that I should bundle CVS up into a pre-
> release and get some final testing before getting 2.6.1 out the door.
> So, I just ran the packaging process that generated a release of
> 2.6.1pre-1:
>
> http://rsync.samba.org/
Ok, this is a late response but I was browsing thru the archives and found
this question on a problem that I have been pondering myself.
Answer: There is no problem if a file gets deleted during transfer since the
file is kept open on the sending side and it will disappear only after the
transfer
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