RSync on Mac

[Giuliano Gavazzi]

On T 24 Jun, 2008, at 01:53 , Brad Farrell wrote:

> I’m having a heck of a time setting up an RSync server on a mac OS X  
> system.  I have run it as a daemon (--daemon) with a configuration  
> file and have created a plist file and put it in the launch  
> directory.  Still can’t get a connection.  When I run ths ps –E on  
> the system, I don’t see rsync running.
>
>
>
> Any links to good setup docs?

I suppose it is a launchd question. I see from the rsync man page:

     --daemon
          This  tells  rsync that it is to run as a daemon.  The  
daemon you start running may be accessed using an rsync client using  
the host::module or rsync://host/module/ syntax.
          If standard input is a socket then rsync will assume that it  
is being run via inetd, otherwise  it  will detach  from  the current  
terminal and become a background daemon.  The daemon will read the  
config file (rsyncd.conf) on each  connect  made  by  a  client  and   
respond  to  requests  accordingly.   See  the rsyncd.conf(5) man page  
for more details.


If rsync detaches, launchd won't be happy. Have you had a look at how  
the /System/Library/LaunchDaemons/ftp.plist is written? To see if  
there is a problem with the service you should tail -f /var/log/ 
system.log after giving the command launchctl load /Library/ 
LaunchDaemons/<your.plist> .

GIuliano