Re: Problem connecting

2001-12-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 17 December 2001 13:31, David Nickel Jr. wrote: > I just finished installing rsync on one of my servers. But when I go to do > a test connection via "rsync web1::" I get the following error > > rsync: failed to connect to web1: Connection refused > rsync error: error in socket IO (code 1

Re: Rsyncd.conf

2001-12-17 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Monday 17 December 2001 11:17, David Nickel Jr. wrote: > Howdy, > I am pretty "green" with rsync so any help will be much appreciated. > I want to mirror webserver A and webserver B. The two directories I want to > mirror are /www/home and /www/default. I was wondering how I would set this > u

Re: Can we encrypt copied files on target machine?

2001-10-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 10 October 2001 16:44, Bennett Todd wrote: > How about using something like the Cryptographic File System (CFS), > where the files are stored encrypted locally, and the encryption is > confined to blocks. This is done to make the encrypted files > random-addressable in the CFS impleme

Re: Newbie: cannot rsync uppercase files

2001-10-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wednesday 03 October 2001 06:40, Andreas Rebenstorf wrote: > Hi, > > I am using the following command: > > rsync -avzuC --delete -e ssh --stats --progress > someone@someware:/home/someone /home/someone > > The problem is now that all uppercase files and directorys are saved as > lowercase. Exam

Re: rsync stopped synchronizing

2001-05-30 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tue, 29 May 2001, Frank Artusa wrote: >I have a few web servers running Redhat 6.2 which synchronize via two >scripts to an rsync server. They run every 5 and 15 minutes through a cron >job. For many months this worked great until a few days ago when it just >stopped working. If I run the

Re: rsync newbie problem

2001-04-25 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wed, 25 Apr 2001, Bob Foster wrote: >Hello, > >I'm trying to set up an rsync that will run without operator intervention. > I have the daemon running on the receiving server and here is the module: > >[test] >path = /web/test >comment = test >uid = siteadm >gid = web >read only = no >list = ye

Re: installing and configuring

2001-04-16 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Mon, 16 Apr 2001, Chandra Kanakpalli wrote: >hi, >I am trying to install rsync on Freebsd machine but after installing i >am not able to find rsyncd.conf file in /usr/etc can some one help me out. You write one. It has sections that look like this: [module] list=yes path=home/somebody ho

Re: transfer as root

2001-04-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Tue, 10 Apr 2001, Andreas Meyer wrote: >Hi all! > >Great thing this rsync to backup my files to my backup-server! > >My secrets-file in /etc looks like this: >root:rootpassword >andreas:password > >In the bash as root I do a: >root@gamma:/home/andreas > rsync -avz -e ssh /cad alpha::ga-cad >Pas

Re: rsync?

2001-02-22 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Khanh Pham wrote: > >Hi, > >I want to use the rsync to copy folders to remote machine. >I do cammand >%rsync -e ssh -v -r user@host:dest it ok. But it prompt me to input the password. >In order to avoid inputing the password, >I've written the password into a file at /home/

Re: RSYNC server setup

2001-02-16 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Fri, 16 Feb 2001, John Poltorak wrote: >I am trying to set up an RSYNC server, and looking at the man pages >it looks like a trivial enough task... > >It seems as though I need to create a /etc/rsyncd.conf with something >like this in it:- > > >[ftp] >path = /pub >comment = ftp

Re: --execute option

2001-02-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Mon, 12 Feb 2001, Dave Dykstra wrote: >The reason why the password is in the clear in the secrets file is not an >antique idea: it avoids having to send the passwords in the clear over the >network, which you cannot avoid with native OS usernames and passords >unless you use encryption like SSH

Re: Help: how to get the module list

2001-02-10 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Sat, 10 Feb 2001, Tal Dayan wrote: >We have a backup script (on Linux x86 6.0) that retrieves the list of >modules (the '[name'] things defined in rsyncd.conf) of a remote server and >than sync it in. This is done using the command: > >rsync --rsh=/usr/bin/rsh --recursive --times myserver.com:

Re: short readunexpected EOF in read_timeout

2001-01-31 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wed, 31 Jan 2001, Oliver Pitterling wrote: >i am trying to setup the 2.4.6-1.i386.rpm rsynch daemon server on "A" and >run the same version on client "B". the client rsync process is supposed to >pull a "backup" from A. i am running the standard redhat 7.0 install with >the 2.2.16-22 kernel on

xinetd

2001-01-15 Thread Pierre Abbat
How do I get rsync working as a daemon called from xinetd? I have never seen xinetd before, but have been using rsync with ssh and inetd with no problem. The OS is Linux Mandrake 7.2 in high security level (and what do security levels do in Mandrake?). phma

Re: The --delete arg does not work

2001-01-12 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Fri, 12 Jan 2001, Brian Vandruff wrote: >I have two directories on the same systems that I want to keep synced >up. Only one is ever updated by my users. Rsync needs to update the >second directory. The problem is that when a file is deleted from the >first directory rsync does not delete it fr

Re: Wishlist .rsyncignore files

2001-01-08 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Mon, 08 Jan 2001, Goswin Brederlow wrote: >Hi, > >cvs has the nice feature that it ignores everything in .cvsignore in >each directory. > >Does rsync has something similar or does anyone voluntere to implement >it? try rsync --cvs-exclude phma

Re: connection refused

2000-11-23 Thread Pierre Abbat
>Why do I always get a FAILED TO CONNECT TO SERVEUR1.MYDOMAIN.COM - >CONNECTION REFUSED error message ??? Do you have rsync listed in /etc/inetd.conf? phma

Re: More rsync problems ( corrupt images)

2000-11-06 Thread Pierre Abbat
>Everything that should be copied across is. The problem is the images >are corrupted in the process. I can send a picture over, mount a floppy >and cp the file to the floppy, drop the floppy back in my WinME box and >am unable to view the image. Any ideas? Check if your Windows disk is mounted b

Re: Builtin encryption support in rsync

2000-11-03 Thread Pierre Abbat
>The data sent over the encrypted channel will usually be >gzip-compressed, so changing a single byte won't produce a single byte >change in decompressed plaintext. (It might be appropriate to force >at least -z0 if --privacy is specified.) Simple corruption of the >stream will be detected by gz

Re: Builtin encryption support in rsync (was Re: I also am getting hang/timeout using rsync 2.4.6 -e ssh)

2000-10-29 Thread Pierre Abbat
>Z number of people will use stream cyphers when they really should be >using ssh, because there are active attackers on the network and the >data is security-critical. This despite that the documentation will >still recommend using SSH as a first choice. The attacks on synchronous stream cipher

Re: Module???

2000-10-11 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wed, 11 Oct 2000, Glen Lee Edwards wrote: >I'm on the client side trying to use rsync to download several files. >We're trying to access the rsync server directly instead of going through >ssh. Using: > >rsync -avc --progress --stats --partial my.server.com::gh2.0/myfile.iso myfile.iso > >I'm

Re: Resuming downloads

2000-10-09 Thread Pierre Abbat
>Is there a way to keep partially downloaded files from disappearing if the >download is severed so the transfer can be resumed? I didn't see anything >in man rsync that covered this. Try --partial . phma

Re: Rsync problems with german umlauts

2000-10-05 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Thu, 05 Oct 2000, Mueller-Lynch Thomas wrote: >Hello, > >I'm using rsync for synchronizing files between two web servers. Some of the >filenames which we synchronize have german umlauts (äöüß) and blanks. After >synchronizing these files the filenames have been switched. > >I'm not sure if yo

Re: Rsync with SSH

2000-09-13 Thread Pierre Abbat
On Wed, 13 Sep 2000, Wood, Jeremy wrote: >All: > I have written a script that uses rsync via ssh to connect to >another server I have web content on. The script runs fine when I run it >from a command line, but when it is run from cron, the ssh hostbased >authentication that I am using cann