Dave- I've got the rsync daemon running as root, (setgroups() man page said that if setgroups wasn't called as root it would give an error message) and I've configured the ports correctly a la man page. I still get the error with setgroups. If it's a recently implemented security feature could I yank that section out of the code and recompile it again? I haven't had a chance to really delve into the code and fink around with it, honestly I've been trying to avoid that:) The --daemon feature is the only thing that's giving me trouble. I've gotten it to copy locally from source to source and at least start copying across a network(although it wasn't very successful in terms of copying..it couldn't "find" a lot of files/folders that were there) So unless nobody has gotten the --daemon function working, I guess it's time to go code diving. -Tito
-------------------------------------------- To heal will require real effort, and a change of heart, from all of us. To heal means that we will begin to look upon one another with respect and tolerance instead of prejudice, distrust, and hatred. --------------------------------------------- > > Message: 1 > Date: Mon, 1 Jul 2002 10:36:09 -0500 > From: Dave Dykstra <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: rsync 2.5.5 and Mac OS X > > I compile rsync on Mac OSX (not sure of the osx version, but uname -a > says it's darwin 5.5) but haven't tried running as a daemon. I suggest > that you try to debug it further. setgroups() is only called one place, > in clientserver.c, with parameters setgroups(0, NULL), and only if > the define HAVE_SETGROUPS is set. This call was a relatively recent > security fix addition to rsync. The OSX setgroups man page says that the > EINVAL error is only supposed to occur if the first parameter is greater > than NGROUPS_MAX. Apparently it is also reporting that error if the first > parameter is zero. > > - Dave Dykstra > > -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.tuxedo.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html