read-only access without rsyncd?

2005-01-12 Thread Martin Schröder
Hi, I've a setup where a special account (limited by the ssh-key) can use rsync via ssh to make a backup of / (limited by sudo). Obviously it needs read-access to everything. However, since he can read everything, he could also easily _write_ everything. Can I limit the rsync command on the

Re: read-only access without rsyncd?

2005-01-12 Thread Wayne Davison
On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:53:47PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: Can I limit the rsync command on the server to read-only? The resources page of the rsync website mentions Joe Smith's perl script that lets you do what you want: http://www.inwap.com/mybin/miscunix/?rrsync You'll need to put

Re: read-only access without rsyncd?

2005-01-12 Thread Martin Schröder
On 2005-01-12 09:20:29 -0800, Wayne Davison wrote: On Wed, Jan 12, 2005 at 02:53:47PM +0100, Martin Schr?der wrote: Can I limit the rsync command on the server to read-only? The resources page of the rsync website mentions Joe Smith's perl script that lets you do what you want:

Speed up rsync ,cwRsync and replay changes against a file

2005-01-12 Thread Aaron Dailey
I found a post to a users group you made regarding cwrsync and incremental backups. You were trying to see if there was a way to capture only the data that rsync had viewed as changed on the file and then save this to a different location on the linux machine and therefore give you an

Protocol incompatibility with rsync 2.6.4 (cvs) and disk full

2005-01-12 Thread Dag Wieers
Hi, I got this error after a transaction was interrupted by me and a new (slightly updated) transaction was started. ... fedora/1/en/i386/base/pkglist.dag.bz2 1246954 100% 67.79kB/s0:00:17 (27, 1.7% of 201557) Invalid file index 1777522462

connection unexpectedly closed...

2005-01-12 Thread Nigel Gilbert
When I run rsync -v --exclude-from= -a --delete --numeric-ids -e ssh -i /root/.ssh/id_rsa /bin/ [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/export/home/scbackup/socnt01//bin/ I immediately get: rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [sender] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code

Timezone error with chrooted rsync version 2.6.3pre1

2005-01-12 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, I am not sure it this still is a point, but I just discovered that a chrooted rsync version 2.6.3pre1 is forgetting the time zone underways: Jan 12 07:00:01 ftp4 rsyncd[11091]: rsync on dobes/ from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (134.76.28.251) Jan 12 06:00:39 ftp4 rsyncd[11091]: wrote 732542 bytes

rsyncd.conf: timeout=minimal crazyness

2005-01-12 Thread Eberhard Moenkeberg
Hi, from time to time, in times like today where the whole world is grabbing SUSE-9.2 and/or debian-30r4, I really like to condemn those other anon rsync server admins (you know, the successors of the traditional unix ftp server admins). They usually have within their /etc/rsyncd.conf a line

CVS update: rsync/support

2005-01-12 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Wed Jan 12 18:48:26 2005 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv24798 Added Files: rrsync Log Message: This is Joe Smith's rrsync (restricted rsync) perl script. Revisions: rrsync NONE = 1.1

CVS update: rsync/support

2005-01-12 Thread Wayne Davison
Date: Wed Jan 12 19:20:07 2005 Author: wayned Update of /data/cvs/rsync/support In directory dp.samba.org:/tmp/cvs-serv2115 Modified Files: rrsync Log Message: - Allow multiple source paths to be specified (and checked). - Allow spaces and a few other extra chars in file names. - For