Can any one help me out?...

2002-07-11 Thread maniezhilan
Dear all, I am ne to rsync, and went through lot of sites and docs. Finally I am putiing my queries here. can any one help me out, to give a solution for me. I am using Redhat 7.2 , rsync-2.4.6-1, openssh-3.4p1-1. My Problems: 1. I want to run rsync in server mode in one of the machine (rsync

superlifter design notes (was Re: Latest rZync release: 0.06)

2002-07-11 Thread Martin Pool
I've put a cleaned-up version of my design notes up here http://samba.org/~mbp/superlifter/design-notes.html It's very early days, but (gentle :-) feedback would be welcome. It has some comments on Wayne's rzync design, which on the whole looks pretty clever. I don't have any worthwhile

Configuration error--Can any one help me out

2002-07-11 Thread maniezhilan
Hi all, I have configured the configuration files rsyncd.conf,rsyncd.secrets and pid files of Server side. when I try to execute the the following command on client side, I am getting this error. rsync -avzrpog [EMAIL PROTECTED]::test /home/backup --password-file=/home/backup/password Error

Re: (there was no subject, but about rsync/ssh

2002-07-11 Thread tim . conway
In order to do rsync over ssh without providing a password, you must be able to ssh without a password. The --password-file= option is to provide a password for a rsyncd server (run as rsync --daemon) password. rsync cannot provide a password to an external transport like ssh or rsh. You

Rsync batch update

2002-07-11 Thread Matt Simonsen
I am very interested in the batch update process and multi-casting the data. Is there anywhere in particular I should look? I have gone to the main link from the man page and am feeling a little overwhelmed by it and the apparent lack of how-to type documents. I would like to help with this if I

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-11 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 05:05:31PM -0600, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I vote for the consistent, complete log format as a solution to this sort of thing, and those who need to take non-rsync related actions based on what rsync did can write their own applications to do so. People keep coming

Sorry about that-New way to run Rsync on OSX

2002-07-11 Thread Catalino Cuadrado
Whoops, I apologize for the off topic e-nail. I meant to write a reply but I mixed up my messages to the various listservers I'm subscribed to. I'll remember to check my address next time. I've found a new way to run Rsync, it works pretty well, and involves a disk image mounted on a server

Quick analysis of 'Broken pipe' error at io.c(463)

2002-07-11 Thread Jason Smith
This one has been biting me recently, and it seems to be completely deterministic: it utterly fails on most directories, but when it fails on one, it does so reproducibly. Also, I'm doing a simple copy from one directory on my machine to another - there is no remote server or network

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-11 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 02:36:22PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: On Tue, Jul 09, 2002 at 11:03:25AM -0700, Dan Stromberg wrote: On Mon, Jul 08, 2002 at 02:04:57PM -0700, jw schultz wrote: The default behavior should not modify files. The general purpose is to have the copies be the same as

Re: strip setuid/setgid bits on backup (was Re: small security-related rsync extension)

2002-07-11 Thread Martin Pool
On 8 Jul 2002, Dave Dykstra [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The idea of the rsync client executing programs has been descussed before and rejected because it could easily be done by an external program if rsync simply passes it filenames. The only case I can see for having rsync execute programs