Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Chown itself is not insecure. The indiscriminate chowning of all files creates security issues. You can use --fake-super on push backups. In fact that is what - --fake-super is DESIGNED FOR. You just have to make sure that - --fake-super is running

Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Thursday 29 August 2013 11:46 PM, Wayne Davison wrote: On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Sherin A > wrote: Hope they will report it as a vulnerability , because this POC has been exploited successfully and it is affected by all software that use rsync

Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue, Aug 27, 2013 at 8:03 PM, Sherin A wrote: > Hope they will report it as a vulnerability , because this POC has been > exploited successfully and it is affected by all software that use rsync > as a backup and restore tool. This is totally false. The vulnerability is your insecure u

Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Wednesday 28 August 2013 08:36 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Only when you choose to force a completely unnecessary chown between the backup and restore process. On 08/27/13 23:03, Sherin A wrote: On Wednesday 28 August 2013 04:14 AM, Kevin Korb wrote:

Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Only when you choose to force a completely unnecessary chown between the backup and restore process. On 08/27/13 23:03, Sherin A wrote: > On Wednesday 28 August 2013 04:14 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: My opinion > on backups is pretty simplistic. If a resto

Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Wednesday 28 August 2013 04:14 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My opinion on backups is pretty simplistic. If a restore of my backup doesn't bring me back to what I had when I backed up then I don't have a backup. If I have to restore something and the re

Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 My opinion on backups is pretty simplistic. If a restore of my backup doesn't bring me back to what I had when I backed up then I don't have a backup. If I have to restore something and the relationship between files that were hard linked in the past

Re: need help with an rsync patch

> The solution is not to refuse to backup any file that is a hard link. > There are legitimate reasons to have hard links and ignoring them > means you aren't backing up everything. I agree that preserving hard links may be important in some situation. There are certainly legitimate reasons to p

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It can push or pull. The important part is that it runs as root on one end and with --fake-super on the other end. On 08/17/13 00:07, Sherin A wrote: > On Thursday 15 August 2013 01:25 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: It works if > you use --fake-super on the s

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Thursday 15 August 2013 01:25 AM, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It works if you use --fake-super on the side that isn't super. That is the only side that needs it: asylum# id kmk uid=12313(kmk) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),16(cron),35(games) a

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 You are putting the --fake-super on the wrong side of the connection. It must be on the side of the connection where rsync is not running as root. That is why in my example I used - --rsync-path='/usr/bin/rsync --fake-super'. That tells it to run wi

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

Hello Kevin, I tested this with rsync version 3.0.9 , but this is not working . Even if we use fake-super or what ever option , these files will be copied into the remote ssh account under that users ownership. root@cptest [~]# ll -d /home/dom2inho drwx--x--x 11 dom2inho dom2inho 4096 A

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 It works if you use --fake-super on the side that isn't super. That is the only side that needs it: asylum# id kmk uid=12313(kmk) gid=100(users) groups=100(users),10(wheel),16(cron),35(games) asylum# ls -l ~kmk/testfile - -rw-r- 1 kmk users 0 Aug

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Wednesday 14 August 2013 11:04 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The point of --fake-super is that when you restore the file with - --fake-super it will restore with the original ownership. Of course that means that the restore has to be run with super

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The point of --fake-super is that when you restore the file with - --fake-super it will restore with the original ownership. Of course that means that the restore has to be run with super privs on the target and --fake-super on the source. On 08/14/1

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Wednesday 14 August 2013 10:25 PM, Kevin Korb wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > Hash: SHA1 > > As has been pointed out to you your problem is not hard links. Your > problem is the indiscriminate use of a root operation (a chown) during > the restoration process. > > You should be so

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 As has been pointed out to you your problem is not hard links. Your problem is the indiscriminate use of a root operation (a chown) during the restoration process. You should be solving this by either: A) backing up and restoring the original owner o

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Wednesday 14 August 2013 08:29 PM, Justin Pryzby wrote: On Wed, Aug 14, 2013 at 04:09:46PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2013 10:24 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: PS : if any one interested in making a patch with an additional option for rsync for excluding hardlinks with -links

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 10:24 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:10:04PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: I am doing rsync from root@10.0.0.10/home/foo to storageuser@10.0.0.20/home/storageuser/dailybackup/foo over ssh (no role for -H) Why not rsync from root to root? Or use the

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Sherin A wrote: > I am doing rsync from root@10.0.0.10/home/foo to > storageuser@10.0.0.20/home/**storageuser/dailybackup/foo > over ssh (no role for -H) , so the storage files must be under the

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 10:10:04PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: > I am doing rsync from root@10.0.0.10/home/foo to > storageuser@10.0.0.20/home/storageuser/dailybackup/foo over ssh (no > role for -H) Why not rsync from root to root? Or use the rsync protocol (not over ssh). Note that you can use -H

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 09:49 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:43:06PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: If linux user foo , with home /home/foo , what ownership we need to give the files under his home folder , it must be "foo" and not root. Why? The user created the hardlink

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 21:04, Sherin A wrote: > On Tuesday 13 August 2013 08:56 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >On 13.08.2013 20:44, Sherin A wrote: > >>On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: > >>>On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > BUT there is no direct vulnera

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 09:43:06PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: > If linux user foo , with home /home/foo , what ownership we need > to give the files under his home folder , it must be "foo" and not > root. Why? The user created the hardlink themselves, and it had root ownership, why should the ba

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 09:07 PM, Justin T Pryzby wrote: On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:44:08PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after th

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 08:44:08PM +0530, Sherin A wrote: > On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: > >On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >>BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after that > >>(like backup/rsync) can make a vulnerability out

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 08:56 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: On 13.08.2013 20:44, Sherin A wrote: On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after that (like back

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 20:44, Sherin A wrote: > On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: > >On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > >>BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after that > >>(like backup/rsync) can make a vulnerability out of it. > >... which

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 07:51 PM, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: On 13.08.2013 15:51, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: I read your sentence differently: If he can make a HARD link to the shadow file, then he can already read it - and worse. My underst

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 05:50 PM, Paul Slootman wrote: On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after that (like backup/rsync) can make a vulnerability out of it. ... which is what I already wrote. Paul So the solutions

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 15:51, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > > I read your sentence differently: > > > > > If he can make a HARD link to the shadow file, then he can already > > > read it - and worse. > > > > My understanding of your sentence says: > > Th

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > I read your sentence differently: > > > If he can make a HARD link to the shadow file, then he can already > > read it - and worse. > > My understanding of your sentence says: > The ability to hardlink, means that anyone can read any file t

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 14:20, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > > BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after that > > (like backup/rsync) can make a vulnerability out of it. > > ... which is what I already wrote. I read your sentence

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 14:18, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > > > > > Hardlinking a file doesn't change it's owner/group/permission > > > > (All Hardlinks have the same user/group/permissions). > > > > > > I never said that. > > > > You implied that by you

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > BUT there is no direct vulnerability in that, only processes after that > (like backup/rsync) can make a vulnerability out of it. ... which is what I already wrote. Paul -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the maili

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > > > Hardlinking a file doesn't change it's owner/group/permission > > > (All Hardlinks have the same user/group/permissions). > > > > I never said that. > > You implied that by your assertion that you suddenly can read a file > after har

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 12:29, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > On 13.08.2013 09:52, Paul Slootman wrote: > > My mistake for assuming that people run current linux kernels... > > /proc/sys/fs/protected_hardlinks (since Linux 3.6) > When the value in t

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 13:17, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > > That aside that's not what i meant. > > That's the problem with one-word answers, people have to guess what you > mean. > > > > Hardlinking a file doesn't change it's owner/group/permission > >

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > That aside that's not what i meant. That's the problem with one-word answers, people have to guess what you mean. > Hardlinking a file doesn't change it's owner/group/permission > (All Hardlinks have the same user/group/permissions). I neve

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 12:29, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > > On 13.08.2013 09:52, Paul Slootman wrote: > > > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Sherin A wrote: > > > > > > > But if a user create a > > > > hard link to /etc/shadow from his home dir , and he request a restore

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Matthias Schniedermeyer wrote: > On 13.08.2013 09:52, Paul Slootman wrote: > > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Sherin A wrote: > > > > > But if a user create a > > > hard link to /etc/shadow from his home dir , and he request a restore , > > > then he can read the shadow files and decrypt

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On 13.08.2013 09:52, Paul Slootman wrote: > On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Sherin A wrote: > > > But if a user create a > > hard link to /etc/shadow from his home dir , and he request a restore , > > then he can read the shadow files and decrypt it . > > If he can make a HARD link to the shadow file, then

Re: need help with an rsync patch

Hello Joe, Thanks for your reply . But think about the real world users. There is not always necessary the /home will be in separate disk partition or /tmp , /var/tmp , /usr/tmp. Think about an openvz vps or disk with everything on / (most of the cloud servers) . Rsync is using in a

Re: Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tue 13 Aug 2013, Sherin A wrote: > But if a user create a > hard link to /etc/shadow from his home dir , and he request a restore , > then he can read the shadow files and decrypt it . If he can make a HARD link to the shadow file, then he can already read it - and worse. Paul -- Please us

Re: need help with an rsync patch

I'm going to give this one more shot and then wait for the experts to weigh in. I'll stick with your example of /etc/shadow, but this applies to any secured file on the system. On my system /etc/shadow is 640 (by default), so, as a normal user, I can't even see it (other than to see that it exist

Fwd: Re: need help with an rsync patch

On Tuesday 13 August 2013 12:23 PM, Joe wrote: Is there any way at all to say which is the original file and which is the hard link? I'll bet there isn't, although I' m not an internals guy at all. If so, this would be impossible to do. The inode is the "original", but all the file table entri

need help with an rsync patch

Can some one create a patch for excluding "hard link regular file" from copying ?. May be like a command flag , rsync --no-hardlink-copy -- -- Regards Sherin A http://www.sherin.co.in/ -- Please use reply-all for most replies to avoid omitting the m

Re: Need help of exclusion options in rsync-3.0.6

Yup, it is working. On Mon, Jul 27, 2009 at 7:42 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote: > Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 26 July 2009 17:45: > >On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:37 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: > >> I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns > >> but sti

Re: Need help of exclusion options in rsync-3.0.6

Matt McCutchen (m...@mattmccutchen.net) wrote on 26 July 2009 17:45: >On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:37 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: >> I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns >> but still want to preserve some other. For example consider below >> source and destination d

Re: Need help of exclusion options in rsync-3.0.6

Thanks Matt, that was great information. I think I don't need to use exclude at all and just need to user H and P flags with --filter option. Also I will need to use --delete option to remove directories filtered H flag. The below command meets exactly my requirements: rsync -avz /foo/bar/ --del

Re: Need help of exclusion options in rsync-3.0.6

On Sun, 2009-07-26 at 21:37 +0530, Jignesh Shah wrote: > I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns > but still want to preserve some other. For example consider below > source and destination directory hierarchy. > > SourceDest > --

Need help of exclusion options in rsync-3.0.6

Hi, I have a situation where I want to delete some of my excluded patterns but still want to preserve some other. For example consider below source and destination directory hierarchy. SourceDest -- - /foo/bar/ /foo/bar/

Re: need help

On 5/4/07, akahitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: hi there, i have a rsync server running in deamon mode, with a 1000 plus clients connecting to it to retrieve files. the problem is that when the clients connects the server has many rsync processes running on it, each of which is around 3.8mb each.

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and grinding to a halt. is there anyway of controlling this or is adding more memory the only option? thanks in advance -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/need-help-tf3691122.html#a10319711 Sent from the Samba - rsync mailing list archive at Nabble.com. -- To unsubscribe or

Need help to rsynch the directory structure only excluding the files from remote to local.

Hi Tim, I tried using the rsync like how you specified in your example and it worked fine. But when I tried it between my UNIX box and a remote server the command would just not complete and give any output whatsoever. This is how I did it: rsync -av --include '*/' --exclude '*' [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/

Re: Need help with the rsync library and the communication protocol

On Thu, Jul 28, 2005 at 02:09:31AM +0200, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > But the rsync source isn't beautiful or structured - it's just a big > hunk of code. Right -- it's a utility, not a library (though someone is working on making it a library). I'd recommend looking into the librsync project inst

Need help with the rsync library and the communication protocol

Hey, I'm currently adding rsync to pacman (http://archlinux.org/pacman). A static version of the program is used for rescue operations. Because of this it is impossible to use the rsync client programm via an execve call and we need a version implemented in C. So I started implementing it. But th

RE: Need Help with rsyncd.conf

: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Need Help with rsyncd.conf Thnaks for yr reply.How can I restrict the client to not be able to upload any file or write any file if rsyncd.conf contains uid=0 and gid=0 ? Thanks, VC --- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > root access (root by any name

RE: Need Help with rsyncd.conf

d stuff like > list = false > read only = true > depending on what access you need > > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of > VC123 > Sent: Tuesday, April 26, 2005 3:04 PM > To: [EMAIL PROTEC

RE: Need Help with rsyncd.conf

, April 26, 2005 3:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Need Help with rsyncd.conf What do this uid =0 anfd gid = 0 mean? Can it pose any security issues. Thanks, VC [root] path = / auth users = XXX secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets uid = 0 gid = 0

Need Help with rsyncd.conf

What do this uid =0 anfd gid = 0 mean? Can it pose any security issues. Thanks, VC [root] path = / auth users = XXX secrets file = /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.secrets uid = 0 gid = 0 __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of sp

Re: Need help with rsync

Thanks Paul, Tried with more options like --rsync-path= and it worked. Regards, VC --- Paul Slootman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon 25 Apr 2005, VC123 wrote: > > : > > > > rsync /export/home/amg/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/export/home/amg > > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > > rsync: connection u

Re: Need help with rsync

On Mon 25 Apr 2005, VC123 wrote: > : > > rsync /export/home/amg/* [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/export/home/amg > [EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: > rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) > [sender] > rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359) Try running

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[EMAIL PROTECTED]'s password: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359) Need help to resove the issue Thanks VC __ Do You Yahoo!? Tir

Re: I need help rsyncing Local Disks

as the same look due to the ghost for linux > clone but I need help on how I should keep this drive sync'd with the main > SCSI disk, sda. I saw the script on rsync.samba.org for backing up to a > spare disk but need some help understanding the coding, as well as knowing > if this

Re: I need help rsyncing Local Disks

On Mon, Jun 14, 2004 at 09:39:04AM -0700, Marshall28 wrote: > spare disk but need some help understanding the coding, as well as knowing > if this script will provide me with another spare disk that is a replica of > the primary. From what I can make of this script it doesn't mirror the > drive, it

I need help rsyncing Local Disks

e 4.6GB SCSI on /dev/sda, mounted like this: /dev/sda1 ==> /boot - 101M /dev/sda2 ==> swap - 269M /dev/sda3 ==> / - 3.9GB 1 Seagate 16GB SCSI on /dev/sdb has the same look due to the ghost for linux clone but I need help on how I should keep this drive sync'd wi

Re: want to write a patch, need help getting started...

--archive will make it match up all the timestamps. owners, etc, along with the data. If the metadata matches, it won't read the files to verify content, so you might want to add --checksum to force reading, though that will make it take a whole lot longer. If you want it to leave owner alone,

Re: want to write a patch, need help getting started...

On Thu, Apr 15, 2004 at 11:24:46AM -0400, John Taylor wrote: > Is there a way to tell rsync to compare checksums, and if they are > the same, simply change the owner/group/timestamp? The --checksum (-c) option does that when combined with -a. ..wayne.. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http:/

want to write a patch, need help getting started...

Greetings, I have two systems that have identical file hierarchies, except the owners/groups and timestamps differ. All of the files have the same checksums. Is there a way to tell rsync to compare checksums, and if they are the same, simply change the owner/group/timestamp? I really only care

Re: Need help with exclude

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 11:44:54AM -0600, daniel wrote: > > > > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:53:10AM -0600, daniel wrote: > > > Thank you for clarifying the issue with regard to the fact that the > > > exclude pattern is relative to the destination path. You are welcome. > > > > No, it's relative

Re: Need help with exclude

> > On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:53:10AM -0600, daniel wrote: > > Thank you for clarifying the issue with regard to the fact that the > > exclude pattern is relative to the destination path. > > No, it's relative to the root of the transfer -- i.e. the names that the > two sides have in common. >

Re: Need help with exclude

On Tue, Nov 25, 2003 at 03:53:10AM -0600, daniel wrote: > Thank you for clarifying the issue with regard to the fact that the > exclude pattern is relative to the destination path. No, it's relative to the root of the transfer -- i.e. the names that the two sides have in common. > The fact that:

Re: Need help with exclude

> Hi all, > > I am having *massive* problems trying to exclude a single directory from an rsync. > > I have serv1 and serv2. I am trying to rsync /foo/test from serv1 to /foo on serv2 > I want to exclude the directory /foo/test/dir1 So I try: > > rsync -av --exclude-from=/foo/rsync.exclude

Re: Need help with exclude

On Tue, 25 Nov 2003, daniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all, >  > I am having *massive* problems trying to exclude a single directory from an rsync. >  > I have serv1 and serv2.  I am trying to rsync /foo/test from serv1 to > /foo on serv2   I want to exclude the directory /foo/test/dir1   So I

Re: Need help with exclude

Hi, ... > rsync -av --exclude=/foo/test/dir1/ /foo/test serv2:/foo > and the exclude still does not work. The following works: rsync -av --exclude=/test/dir1/ /foo/test serv2:/foo Why? Because one should think the exclude pathnames are *relative* ones to the destination directory. In your c

Need help with exclude

Hi all, I am having *massive* problems trying to exclude a single directory from an rsync. I have serv1 and serv2. I am trying to rsync /foo/test from serv1 to /foo on serv2 I want to exclude the directory /foo/test/dir1 So I try: rsync -av --exclude-from=/foo/rsync.excludes /foo/test serv

Re: Need Help.

derix suartyo wrote: > Dear Expert, > > I'm very newbie with rsync and i just installed RSYNC > in both of my servers. Let say the server is ServerA > (10.1.1.1) and ServerB (10.1.1.2). Rsync daemon runs > in server A. The rsycnd.conf is like this (i save this > file in /etc/rsyncd.conf): > > uid

Need Help.

Dear Expert, I'm very newbie with rsync and i just installed RSYNC in both of my servers. Let say the server is ServerA (10.1.1.1) and ServerB (10.1.1.2). Rsync daemon runs in server A. The rsycnd.conf is like this (i save this file in /etc/rsyncd.conf): uid = rsync gid =

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p1r:/special/test #rsync --stats --progress --partial --timeout=60 -atnvvvz pamirian@rsp1l::AGBEA /special/te> opening tcp connection to rsp1l port 873 - this is the motd file -   Password: receiving file list ... push_dir .: Permission deni

Re: Need help getting rsync working...

On 13 Mar 2002, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for your reply Greg. > > As you suggested, I have typed in: > rsync /tmp/sheepb.jpg RH72TB::testmodule/ > > and it just does a CR-LF with no errors, but the file is not on the server > hard drive. I wonder where it has gone? :-)) Now try

Re: Need help getting rsync working...

urley" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "Dave Dykstra" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:51 PM Subject: Re: Need help getting rsync working... > hi Brad, > > Since dave is probab

Re: Need help getting rsync working...

ot; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 3:53 PM Subject: Re: Need help getting rsync working... > On 13 Mar 2002, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Thanks for the reply Dave. I have added your recommended, "read only = no&

Re: Need help getting rsync working...

hi Brad, Since dave is probably sleeping right now and I am in avoidance mode "Brad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > rsync /tmp/sheepb.jpg RH72TB::tmp/ > > @ERROR: Unknown module 'tmp' >From your earlier rsync.conf the module name is testmodule so try $ rsync /tmp/sheepb.jpg RH72TB::t

Re: Need help getting rsync working...

On 13 Mar 2002, Brad <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thanks for the reply Dave. I have added your recommended, "read only = no" > to rsyncd.conf and put 2 colons as you suggested, and now I get: > > rsync /tmp/sheepb.jpg RH72TB::tmp/ That should be "testmodule" -- the first word after the quadraspo

Re: Need help getting rsync working...

t; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, March 13, 2002 8:28 AM Subject: Re: Need help getting rsync working... > To use the rsync --daemon, you need to use two colons after the server name. > > The next problem you'll probably run into is that you

Re: Need help getting rsync working...

To use the rsync --daemon, you need to use two colons after the server name. The next problem you'll probably run into is that you'll need "read only = no" in rsyncd.conf. - Dave Dykstra On Tue, Mar 12, 2002 at 06:26:12PM +1000, Rsync mail Account wrote: > I have so far been unable to get rsyn

Need help getting rsync working...

I have so far been unable to get rsync to work properly in a test setup. Does anyone have any ideas? Both PCs are running RedHat 7.2. The Server: IP Address 192.168.0.202 Server Name: RH72TB hosts.allow ALL: 192.168.0.201 rsyncd.conf: [testmodule] path = /tmp The Client: IP Address 192.168