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
On Thu, Jun 27, 2002 at 02:51:40PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I've got mine setup in inetd.conf to be executed on a per-call request
of port 873 as written in the man pages. The advantage of using this
method, is that when the client is done and disconnects, the daemon
quits, thereby freeing up resources that it was using. Word of warning
though if you want to try this route.. you need to add an rsync tcp
entry for port 873 into Services with the NetInfo manager in addition to
editing the /etc/inetd.conf file. You'll have to restart to get any
changes to inetd.conf take effect as 'killall -HUP inetd' has no effect.
When run in the manner above, it is started up as the root user (as
specified in inetd.conf).
- Original Message -
From: Catalino Cuadrado [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: rsync digest, Vol 1 #778 - 11 msgs
I haven't gotten it to work successfully, I'm still struggling
with the
same setgroups error that you are. However, I can tell you what I have
tried. So far I have rsync configured to run in --daemon mode
using the
command: sudo rsync --daemon I can prompt it for a list of
modules, but
when I go to copy a module, I get the error @ERROR: setgroups failed.
I can copy locally, from one HD to another, but I can't get it to copy
over the network, even using the sudo rsync ipaddress:/Filename /
method.So it's been kind of aggrivating. I'm thinking it has to do
with the fact
that rsync needs to be run locally, and you're running it from a
remoteserver... If there's a way to trick the system into thinking
that the
rsync daemon is running as root on the local machine, that would
be ideal.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the UNIX side of things
to get
that far.
-Tito
Message: 5
Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:08:00 -0600
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: rsync 2.5.5 and Mac OS X
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Greetings,
Has anyone successfully compiled rsync 2.5.5 under Mac OS X (not
Server), and actually have it work fully?
I'm in a position where I'm trying to setup an automated nightly
remote backup between and Cobalt Raq4 (running a variant of
Redhat Linux) and a
Mac running OS X 10.1.5 with the latest development tools
installed. As
has been pointed out previously on the list, one has to
./configure with
the --disable-ipv6 flag to even get it to compile at all. However
there's further issues when trying to back up to the Mac running
rsync in inetd --daemon mode.
When I issue the following command:
---
rsync -avz /home [EMAIL PROTECTED]::raqbackup
---
I get the following error:
---
@ERROR: setgroups failed
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (79 bytes read so far)
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
io.c(150) ---
On the server end, rsyncd.log shows the following:
---
2002/06/27 09:50:03 [19768] setgroups failed: Invalid argument
---
I've had luck running rsync 2.5.2 running through ssh, but
because I
can't get it to retain the user/group ownership settings it's
completely useless as 'mirrored' backup unless I spent the next
month hand
restoring the file ownership's by hand. The man pages noted this
limitation, unless running as super-user, which I haven't been
able to
get to work (use chroot=yes in rsyncd.conf doesn't seem to do it)
If anyone has been able to get Mac OS X 10.1.5 running as a
rsync server
in such a fashion, I'd really appreciate hearing from you.
For debuging purposes, my current rsyncd.conf is:
---
use chroot = yes
max connections = 1
syslog facility = local5
motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
[raqbackup]
path = /Volumes/Eeyore/RaqBackup
comment = Raq Backup Directory
auth users = xxx
secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
---
and the destination directory is set as:
---
drwxrwxrwx2 nobody nobody 24 Jun 26 22:09 RaqBackup
---
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