rsync digest, Vol 1 #778 - 11 msgs

[Catalino Cuadrado]

I haven't gotten it to work successfully, I'm still struggling with the
same setgroups error that you are. However, I can tell you what I have
tried. So far I have rsync configured to run in --daemon mode using the
command: sudo rsync --daemon I can prompt it for a list of modules, but
when I go to copy a module, I get the error @ERROR: setgroups failed.
I can copy locally, from one HD to another, but I can't get it to copy
over the network, even using the sudo rsync ipaddress:/Filename / method.
So it's been kind of aggrivating. I'm thinking it has to do with the fact
that rsync needs to be run locally, and you're running it from a remote
server... If there's a way to trick the system into thinking that the
rsync daemon is running as root on the local machine, that would be ideal.
Unfortunately, I don't know enough about the UNIX side of things to get
that far.
-Tito

 > Message: 5
> Date: Thu, 27 Jun 2002 10:08:00 -0600
> From: grbear at shaw.ca
> Subject: rsync 2.5.5 and Mac OS X
> To: rsync at lists.samba.org
> Reply-To: meReplyToAddress=@prod.shaw.ca
>
> Greetings,
>
> Has anyone successfully compiled rsync 2.5.5 under Mac OS X (not
> Server), and actually have it work fully?
>
> I'm in a position where I'm trying to setup an automated nightly remote
> backup between and Cobalt Raq4 (running a variant of Redhat Linux) and a
> Mac running OS X 10.1.5 with the latest development tools installed.  As
> has been pointed out previously on the list, one has to ./configure with
> the --disable-ipv6 flag to even get it to compile at all.  However
> there's further issues when trying to back up to the Mac running rsync
> in inetd --daemon mode.
>
> When I issue the following command:
>
> ---
> rsync -avz /home xxxxxx at xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx::raqbackup
> ---
>
> I get the following error:
>
> ---
> @ERROR: setgroups failed
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (79 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(150)
> ---
>
> On the server end, rsyncd.log shows the following:
>
> ---
> 2002/06/27 09:50:03 [19768] setgroups failed: Invalid argument
> ---
>
> I've had luck running rsync 2.5.2 running through ssh, but because I
> can't get it to retain the user/group ownership settings it's completely
> useless as 'mirrored' backup unless I spent the next month hand
> restoring the file ownership's by hand.  The man pages noted this
> limitation, unless running as super-user, which I haven't been able to
> get to work (use chroot=yes in rsyncd.conf doesn't seem to do it)
>
> If anyone has been able to get Mac OS X 10.1.5 running as a rsync server
> in such a fashion, I'd really appreciate hearing from you.
>
> For debuging purposes, my current rsyncd.conf is:
>
> ---
> use chroot = yes
> max connections = 1
> syslog facility = local5
> motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
>
> [raqbackup]
>         path = /Volumes/Eeyore/RaqBackup
>         comment = Raq Backup Directory
>         auth users = xxxxxxx
>         secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> ---
>
> and the destination directory is set as:
>
> ---
> drwxrwxrwx    2 nobody  nobody      24 Jun 26 22:09 RaqBackup
> ---