Setup rsync

Francis Montagnac Francis.Montagnac at sophia.inria.fr
Thu Aug 16 20:55:13 EST 2001


> I'm trying to setup rsync, but I don't.
> My configuration file  rsyncd.conf is
<snip>
> and in the server, the log error is
 
> Aug 16 11:53:13 ender in.rshd[3259]: connect from 192.168.2.24
> (192.168.2.24)
> Aug 16 11:53:13 ender pam_rhosts_auth[3259]: denied to ursync at 192.168.2.24
> as ursync: access not allowed
> Aug 16 11:53:13 ender in.rshd[3259]: rsh denied to ursync at 192.168.2.24 as
> ursync: Permission denied.
> Aug 16 11:53:13 ender in.rshd[3259]: rsh command was
> 'rsync --server --sender -r . files'

This shows that you are using rsync through rsh and not directly to
the rsyncd daemon.

You should the syntax:

  rsync server_host::some_module ...

(note the ::) instead of

  rsync server_host:some_file 

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