rsync: network "bind interfaces only" command for rsync?

Lachlan Cranswick l.m.d.cranswick at dl.ac.uk
Tue May 14 07:54:01 EST 2002


>Might the --address= option below, in conjunction with your IP filtering, 
>do what you want?
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>     --address
>          By default rsync will bind to the wildcard address when
>          run  as  a daemon with the --daemon option or when con-
>          necting to a rsync server. The --address option  allows
>          you  to  specify a specific IP address (or hostname) to
>          bind to. This makes virtual hosting  possible  in  con-
>          junction with the --config option.
>
>SunOS 5.7           Last change: 25 Jan 2002                   17
>
>User Commands                                            rsync(1)
>++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
>Tim Conway

Thanks - I was looking in the rsyncd.conf info files instead of the
startup options files.

Based on local scanning using "nmap" (permission obtained from sys 
admin to have this on my systems so I don't get arrested as a hacker), 
this seems to work well.

Lachlan.

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