small problem that I'm having...

[jw schultz]

On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:57:17AM -0500, Patrick Amirian wrote:
> 
> 
> Well I have no permission problems... I'm running my commands as root.
> 
> With path = /a/b/ it didn't work but it worked with path = /a/b/*

link_stat . : Permission denied
means you do have a permissions problem.

Unless you have uid = root in your module options rsyncd
will change its uid to that of an ordinary user when serving
that module.  The user "nobody" is the default.

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> la part de jw schultz
> Envoy??: 28 janvier, 2003 09:39
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> Objet?: Re: RE : RE : small problem that I'm having...
> 
> On Tue, Jan 28, 2003 at 09:00:35AM -0500, Patrick Amirian wrote:
> > FYI.
> > Yeah actually I found my mistake.
> > In the config file I had path=/blah/blah/
> > The real thing is path=/blah/blah/*
> >  
> > It worked.
> 
> Poor solution.  Common error.  Much better to fix the
> permissions on /blah/blah
> 
> Using * means that it will do shell expansion and not match
> any dot files the top level directory.  That may be
> acceptable in some cases but don't try it on home
> directories or web server trees with .htaccess files.
> 
> Using * as shorthand for all files and dirs with rsync and
> similar tools is a bad habit that will bite you in the
> anterior when you are least expecting it.
> 
> 
> 
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