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On Monday 01 September 2003 22:14, Ernie Schroder wrote:

>       I see Peter in there and I just GOT to pick his brain some more.
> I'd like rsync to log some basic information such as  the summary I see
> at the end, time started and time ended, but not all the file lists I
> see scrolling by. I have written a file, saved as /etc/rsyncd.conf on
> both the client and host, that has the single line:
> log file = /var/log/rsync.log
> on both machines there is no rsync.log being written. IIUC, the log
> should, or if the .conf was right, would be written to the machine that
> is the destination of the backup. But:
>
> $ tail /var/log/rsync.log
> tail: /var/log/rsync.log: No such file or directory
>
> I've even resorted to rebooting the destination box. Still no joy. I'm
> obviously missing something here could you point me in the right
> direction?

rsync.conf is for the daemon. The daemon generally listens for connections, 
and sends files out. Should really be split into 2 binaries, rsync and 
rsyncd.
I haven't followed this thread fully, but I understand you are in fact 
transferring the files over ssh. This is what I have always had to do when 
using rsync in this manner.

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Mike Williams
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