Re: invalid uid os x

[John Abraham]

I updated to rsync 3.0.7 using macports.  Also I managed to finally get 
launchctl to work to launch the daemon using a plist file in 
/Library/LaunchDaemons.  Now it does seem to work.  I'm keeping my fingers 
crossed.

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John


On 2010-01-23, at 2:25 AM, Mac User FR wrote:

> I don't have any help for the solution of your uid problem, but try upgrading 
> to a recent rsync version.
> 
> 1) Download and Install XCode if not already done
> 2) Download sources from rsync server
> 3) unzip
> 4) open a Terminal on the rsync sources folder
> 5) run "./configure && make"
> 6) try using the fresh compiled rsync instead of built-in one.
> 
> Personally, I dislike Apple version of rsync because of the extended 
> resources patch they made isn't compatible with the one further adopted by 
> rsync. So, to have multiplatform extended attributes functionality you should 
> replace Apple's rsync by a new version. As my main interest in rsync is to 
> run it over any OS (I run it fine in OS X >= 10.4, Windows XP/2003, linux, 
> freebsd).
> 
> Hope this help you to find a solution.
> 
> Best regards,
> 
> Vitorio
> 
> Le 22 janv. 2010 à 22:54, John Abraham a écrit :
> 
>> I have a strange problem on OS X server.   I start the rsync daemon manually 
>> using
>> su
>> rsync --daemon
>> 
>> (or sudo rsync --daemon)
>> 
>> and it works for a while.  But eventually, when people try to connect, they 
>> get an "invalid uid" error.  The uid is the once specified in the profile in 
>> rsyncd.conf .
>> 
>> If I kill the daemon process (kill -9) then restart it, it all works again.
>> 
>> Anyone else run across this?
>> 
>> I need to restart the daemon every day or so.  It might have something to do 
>> with me logging out of OS X, then logging back in.  But it's rather strange. 
>>  And google isn't helping me.  I tried searching the web and the mailing 
>> list archives but didn't have any luck.
>> 
>> This is the default version of rsync on OS X snow leopard server, which is 
>> rsync  version 2.6.9  protocol version 29.  My rsync userids are local 
>> machine ID's, not LDAP ID's, but that shouldn't matter, I don't think.
>> 
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>> John 
>> 
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