Need Help.

[Max Bowsher]

derix suartyo wrote:
> Dear Expert,
>
> I'm very newbie with rsync and i just installed RSYNC
> in both of my servers. Let say the server is ServerA
> (10.1.1.1) and ServerB (10.1.1.2). Rsync daemon runs
> in server A. The rsycnd.conf is like this (i save this
> file in /etc/rsyncd.conf):
>
> uid             = rsync
> gid             = rsync
> use chroot      = no
> max connections = 4
> syslog facility = local5
> auth users      = root
> secrets file    = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> pid file        = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> [derix]
>         path    = /home/derix
>         comment = testing rsync
>
> and my secret file is like this:
> root:abc123
>
> I checked the process by typing ps -ef | grep rsync
> and the result is like this:
> root      5487     1  0 13:05 ?        00:00:00 rsync
> --daemon

This part refers to the rsync daemon method of connection.

> When i try to download the data from ServerA to
> ServerB,the password prompt occured. I use this
> command:
> rsync -a -e ssh root at 10.1.1.1:/home/derix
> /home/derix/dat/

This bit refers to connection via ssh. They are totally different. You need
to decide which one you want to use.

Max.