Bad transfer

[John Van Essen]

On Fri, 24 Oct 2003, NOC (EUROFMC) <noc at eurofmc.com> wrote:
>
> I'm using a server (named foo) there uses qmail MTA.
> 
> I.e, I've in /home directory :
> 
> drwx------ user1 bar 4096 Oct 6 00:00 user1

Only 'user1' and 'root' can read the contents of this directory.

> and, under this folder, some files with 700 rights.
> 
> When I'll request from another machine with a rsync client machine, just I
> receive the folders of user1, but empty...

That's to be expected...
 
> My rsyncd.conf in //foo/etc :
> 
>          [foo_home]
>          comment = rsync on //foo
>          path = /home/
>          read only = no
>          list = yes
>          uid = nobody
>          gid = nobody
>          auth users = fmc02
>          secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

..because you have the userid set to 'nobody' here.

> and my request from the client machine :
> 
> rsync -avz--progress -r --ignore-errors --password-file=/etc/rsync-pass
> --exclude-from=/etc/rsync-exclude fmc02 at echo.eurofmc.com::foo_home /home/
> 
> Please, help
> 
> Francois
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        John Van Essen  Univ of MN Alumnus  <vanes002 at umn.edu>