F'ing hell (documentation problem)

[Derek Simkowiak]

	Hello.  I'm trying something from the rsync man page and it is failing.

	From http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync.html:
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CONNECTING TO AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM

It is sometimes useful to be able to set up file transfers using rsync 
server capabilities on the remote machine, while still using rsh or ssh 
for transport. [...]

 From the user's perspective, using rsync in this way is the same as 
using it to connect to an rsync server, except that you must explicitly 
set the remote shell program on the command line with --rsh=COMMAND. 
(Setting RSYNC_RSH in the environment will not turn on this functionality.)

In order to distinguish between the remote-shell user and the rsync 
server user, you can use '-l user' on your remote-shell command:

     rsync -av --rsh="ssh -l ssh-user" rsync-user at host::module[/path] 
local-path

The "ssh-user" will be used at the ssh level; the "rsync-user" will be 
used to check against the rsyncd.conf on the remote host.

[...]

RUNNING AN RSYNC SERVER OVER A REMOTE SHELL PROGRAM

[...I followed these instructions on the server...]

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	I am trying to do this: connect to an rsyncd server, using ssh as the 
transport.  That is different from running rsync as not-a-server using ssh.

	Whenever I try to connect, following the man page example almost 
verbatim, this is what I get:


[dereks at dev testing_rsync]$ rsync -av --rsh="ssh -l rsync" 
rysnc-user at dev::test ./
WARNING: --rsh or -e option ignored when connecting to rsync daemon
rsync: failed to connect to dev: Connection refused
rsync error: error in socket IO (code 10) at clientserver.c(97)


	The box named "dev" is the one I am trying to connect to.  The user 
named "rsync" is the username on the host "dev".  As per the man page, I 
have set up my ssh "~rsync/.ssh/authorized_keys" with a "command=" line 
for the key with which I am connecting.  That "command=" line launches 
the rsync daemon with the trailing period ('.'), as per the man page.

	I think the crux of the problem is that rsync is still interpreting the 
double colon to mean "connect to dev on port 873 using the rsync 
protocol".  I think this because of this warning message:

WARNING: --rsh or -e option ignored when connecting to rsync daemon

	But I am NOT trying to connect to the rsync daemon, I am trying to 
connect to the sshd daemon, which will then look at 
~rsync/.ssh/authorized_keys, run this command (after auth):

rsync --server --daemon --config=/home/rsync/rsyncd.conf .

	(Note the trailing period,) and then do the file synchronisation with 
all the cool rsyncd daemon features such chroot() and a secrets file.

	In summary: the man page says I can use --rsh with the double colon 
rsyncd server syntax, but rsync says that I cannot.  Please advise.


This is on "dev", a Mandrake Linux 9.0 box:
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[rsync at dev rsync]$ rsync --version
rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
               IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
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This is on my laptop (the client I'm trying to connect from), a Mandrake 
Linux 9.1 box:
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[dereks at dev testing_rsync]$ rsync --version
rsync  version 2.5.5  protocol version 26
Copyright (C) 1996-2002 by Andrew Tridgell and others
<http://rsync.samba.org/>
Capabilities: 64-bit files, socketpairs, hard links, symlinks, batchfiles,
               IPv6, 64-bit system inums, 64-bit internal inums

rsync comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY.  This is free software, and you
are welcome to redistribute it under certain conditions.  See the GNU
General Public Licence for details.
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Thank You,
Derek