Failed starting rsync daemon from a remote server(ssh)

[wenjie zheng]

It works.
Thanks a lot!

Wenjie

On 5/10/07, Matt McCutchen <hashproduct+rsync at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/10/07, wenjie zheng <wenjie.zheng at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Has anyone tried to start a rsync daemon from a remote server?
> >
> > I tried to execute the following command from a remote server A, but
> failed
> > [root at A ~]# ssh crcdev1 "su virtual -c
> > \"/usr/local/fenbu/replication/bin/rsync -v --daemon
> > --bwlimit=1000
> > --config=/usr/local/fenbu/replication/conf/email_rsyncd.conf\"
> > "
> >
> > @RSYNCD: 29
>
> The trouble is that the stdin that sshd provides to rsync is a socket,
> and when rsync's stdin is a socket, rsync assumes it is supposed to
> handle a single request over that socket instead of entering the
> background and listening for any number of requests on the port given
> in the configuration file.  To make rsync listen for requests,
> redirect its stdin from /dev/null by adding </dev/null to the remote
> command (it shouldn't matter whether the redirection is inside or
> outside the su).
>
> The special behavior when stdin is a socket was done so that "rsync
> --daemon ..." would work as an xinetd command.  However (attn. Wayne),
> it seems to me that there's no need for the behavior because the
> administrator could get the same effect by passing --server .
>
> Matt
>
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