I have been using rsync in daemon mode to get backups of systems. The daemon would not start on one system. Gave the syslog message that the 'Address already in use'. netstat, lsof, ps - nothing exposed the process that was taking the port. It would not time out and magically start either. I started rsync on a different port and it ran fine. This still was not a great solution, as I did not code all the parts of the backup to point to a special port. And it bugged me.
Turned out that the nfs kernel server was running. When I shut down that service, rsync would start in daemon mode on the default port! I no longer needed this system to serve files, so this solution worked. Is this a known conflict, or has anyone seen this? My system is a debian (running sid - unstable), and rsync v. 2.5.6-1, kernel is 2.4.22. I have another system where I intermittently cannot start rsync in daemon mode, and it serves nfs as well. -- William Geddes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html