On Tue 16 Dec 2008, Peter Palfrader wrote:
> On Tue, 16 Dec 2008, Paul Slootman wrote:
> 
> > > per request of mirroradm I had installed rsync 3.0.3-2~bpo40+1 on
> > > kassia.debian.org.
> > > 
> > > This resulted in stable rsync clients (2.6.9-2etch2) no longer being
> > > able to access rsync shares:
> 
> > Perhaps having tcpdumps from both ends will help to show what exactly
> > goes wrong, seeing how both ends now claim "Connection reset by peer",
> > only one is right, you'd expect...
> 
> tcpdumping kassia is possible, breaking it to possibly broken versions
> not so much (given that it's security, ftp.d.o, and eu-syncproxy).  I'll
> try to reproduce the issue some place else.

You could try installing it in parallel (i.e. grab the /usr/bin/rsync
binary out of the .deb and stick that as /usr/bin/rsync-3.0), and let it
listen on a different port number. 

> > There isn't some inetd-type thing that wraps accesses to the rsync
> > daemon, that may be screwing things up?
> 
> Well, it is running out of xinetd, but that doesn't change between 2.6.9
> and 3.0.3.

Yes, but it may interact in some way that interferes with the new
version!

Why not let rsync run as a daemon? IMHO that's the best way...


Paul



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