It finally dawned on me last night that the rsyncd daemon issue was that it
was running as the user "nobody"
Everything else was set correctly at the server so I changed the
rsyncd.conf file and set "uid = root".
One of the things I did was go through the rsync mailing list archives and
found
On Tue, Apr 16, 2024 at 2:12 AM John Cusick wrote:
>
> I would have thought that the "sudo /usr/bin/rsync" would give the rsync
> executable root level access but I guess not. Something has appeared to have
> changed from 6 years ago and I'm not sure what it is.
>
> (again, the sudoers file
Hi once more,
I haven't fully followed, but I think that you've written that
the sudoers file has the following entry:
# setup for backuppc to run rsync
backuppc ALL= NOPASSWD:/usr/bin/rsync
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and at some other point you mentioned that rsync is run by user
'nobody'...?
_Not_
In BackupPC > Edit Config > Rsync Paths/Commands/Args do you have “sudo
/usr/bin/rsync” for RsyncClientPath?
Kind regards,
*Jamie*
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*From:* John Cusick
*Sent:* Tuesday, April 16, 2024 8:09 AM
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Hi there,
On the client system I can sudo to the backuppc user and, as a test I ran "sudo
rsync /home/john/testfile.txt /home/backuppc/" and it succeeds
with no errors. The file was copied to the backuppc home directory.
But it always fails when being run from the BackupPC server with the
On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 8:44 PM Les Mikesell wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 15, 2024 at 9:10 PM John Cusick wrote:
> >
> > I've searched multiple sites and everything I've tried just isn't
> working.
> >
> > I'm using rsyncd
> >
> > The systems I'm testing are both Fedora 39, one server and one laptop.
>
