rsync 2.5.5 and Mac OS X

[grbear at shaw.ca]

I've got mine setup in inetd.conf to be executed on a per-call request
of port 873 as written in the man pages. The advantage of using this
method, is that when the client is done and disconnects, the daemon
quits, thereby freeing up resources that it was using. Word of warning
though if you want to try this route.. you need to add an rsync tcp
entry for port 873 into Services with the NetInfo manager in addition to
editing the /etc/inetd.conf file.  You'll have to restart to get any
changes to inetd.conf take effect as 'killall -HUP inetd' has no effect.

When run in the manner above, it is started up as the root user (as
specified in inetd.conf).

----- Original Message -----
From: Catalino Cuadrado <ccuadrado at mail.wesleyan.edu>
Date: Thursday, June 27, 2002 2:19 pm
Subject: Re: rsync digest, Vol 1 #778 - 11 msgs

> 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 
> remoteserver... 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
> > ---