Log Error Message

[Assar Westerlund]

Scott Sipe <cscotts at mindspring.com> writes:
> May 31 19:30:49 boud rsyncd[81707]: /etc/pwd.db: No such file or directory
> 
> The file is definitely there, and readable.

The server is looking for a /etc/pwd.db in the chroot tree.

> boud# ls -l /etc/pwd.db
> -rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  40960 May 22 08:08 /etc/pwd.db
> 
> It's not that big a deal, because the rsync proceeds with no problems,
> I'm just wondering if this is something to be worried about?

Please read the section on use_chroot in rsyncd.conf(5) and
--numeric-ids in rsync(1).