ssh rsync problem

[Remco Boom]

Hello Harm

if you use
#rsync ....... harm at 192.168.1.1:test
rsync wil look for the test directory in the homedir of harm

When you try
# rsync ....... harm at 192.168.1.1::test
rync will  use the [test] in your config file.

!note: the difference is the dubble ":"

Grtz,Remco

Harm Aarts wrote:

> Hi all,
> I recently acquired a laptop which brings the grand total of computers 
> at three. 1 laptop, 1 server, 1 desktop. Now the problem I want to 
> solve is the following: Because I work on both my laptop and desktop I 
> would like to sync data in my prj/ directory to my server. So when I 
> logon I sync my data from to server to the computer I currently 
> working on and when I logoff I sync the data back.
> Rsync looked ready for the job but I have only a partial working system.
> On the server:
> /etc/rsyncd.conf
> motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock
>
> uid = nobody
> gid = backup
> hosts allow = 192.168.1.3, 192.168.2.3
>
> [homesync]
>    path = /home/xxxx/rsync/prj
>    comment = Mijn eigen rsync server
>    read only = no
>    list = yes
>    auth users = harmrsync
>    secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.scrt
>
> [test]
>    path = /tmp/test
>
> /etc/rsync.scrt
> harmrsync:12345678
>
> So far so good, if I run locally:
> server:/etc# rsync localhost::
> This is my test Message Of The Day
>
> homesync        Mijn eigen rsync server
> test
>
> Great! That appears to work, further test reveil locally a working 
> system. But now to my desktop system, when I try to run:
> harm at castle:/tmp$ rsync --verbose --progress --recursive --stats \ 
> --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh 192.168.1.1:test /tmp/test
> Password:
> receiving file list ...
> rsync: link_stat "/home/harm/test" failed: No such file or directory (2)
> 0 files to consider
> client: nothing to do: perhaps you need to specify some filenames or 
> the --recursive option?
> rsync error: some files could not be transferred (code 23) at main.c(723)
> harm at castle:/tmp$
>
> This puzzles me. Why is rsync looking in the /home/harm/test 
> directory??? I think I told it otherwise in the [test] clause in the 
> rsyncd.conf. When I try:
> harm at castle:/tmp$ rsync --verbose --progress --recursive --stats 
> --rsh=/usr/bin/ssh 192.168.1.1:/tmp/test /tmp/test
> everything works fine again. But this is not what I want! In want only 
> the test and homesync module to be allowed!
>
> Can anybody help me? Thanks in advance.
>
> Wtih kind regards,
> Harm Aarts