[Fwd: Apache as a Rsync HTTP proxy]

[John Van Essen]

Vincent,

Thanks for the additional info.  "the problem is always happening" is
different from "sometimes" that you used in your original email.

The idle rsync processes implies that Apache is closing the channel
on its own.  So...

What is the command that you use to run the rsync client?

What environment variables do you set, like RSYNC_PROXY?

    John


On Tue, 20 Dec 2005, Vincent Blondel <vincent at xtra-net.org> wrote:
> 
> So, to be very clear, I get a server (in my LAN) that synchronizes a website (on the net) twice an hour with the rsync
> utility. My web server is located in a vlan that doesn't have any access on the internet.
> 
> So the server access the internet through an HTTP proxy ( apache 1.3.X ) with rsync 2.6.6.
> 
>     Rsync Server
>         ^
>         |
>      internet
>         ^
>         |
>      router
>         ^
>         |
>    Apache HTTP proxy
>         ^
>         |
>   Server (Rsync client)
> 
> When you have a look at my httpd config, I am also using ProxyReceiveBufferSize with value 2048 and ProxyIOBufferSize with
> value 131072 but the problem is always happening.
> 
> Each time, rsync starts, the connection breaks a few seconds after it receives the files list and at the end of the day I
> get 50 rsync idle processes. I get exacly the same situation on the HTTP proxy that gets 50 idle processes waiting an
> answer from the rsync processes.