@ERROR: chroot failed

[Dave Dykstra]

On Wed, Oct 10, 2001 at 11:47:11AM -0700, Jason Helfman wrote:
> Why would I be getting this on a box? I have the same permissions on
> many other directories. Using verbose mode shows nothing more then the
> error in the Subject line.

That error is coming from an rsync daemon server.  Are you administering
that side?  If so, what does the rsyncd.conf look like?  Most likely it is
either
    a) it's run as root but there's no "uid = root"
    b) it's not run as root and there's no "use chroot = no"

- Dave Dykstra