how to start rsync daemon on fedora

[michael]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 13:42 +0100, michael wrote:
> On Thu, 2008-10-09 at 17:08 -0700, Wayne Davison wrote:
> > On Thu, Oct 09, 2008 at 03:29:04PM +0100, michael wrote:
> > > and this is when I've tried both of
> > > a) /usr/bin/rsync --daemon -v
> > > b) sudo /sbin/chkconfig rsync on
> > 
> > Fedora supplies an /etc/xinetd.d/rsync file that defaults to off.  Using
> > your b command should turn it on and sighup xinetd.  If you go the
> > xinetd route, that means that there won't be a dedicated rsync daemon
> > running.  You could elect to leave the xinetd config file disabled and
> > run a daemon, if you like.
> > 
> > However, Fedora doesn't supply an /etc/rsyncd.conf file, which you must
> > create for rsync to work.  With that set you should be able to run a
> > "telnet localhost 873".  If not, check the xinetd config files (if
> > used).  You can also try a "rsync --daemon --no-detach" to see if it
> > outputs any errors about your config file (it can output some errors
> > that way that can't make it into a log file, such as permission errors
> > trying to create the log file).  Hit Ctrl-C to kill it if it didn't die
> > due to an error (an inability to bind error would be expected if you
> > left xinetd enabled).
> 
> 
> okay, I think I've done it - I created 
> mkb at veri:~$ cat /etc/rsyncd.conf 
> # rsyncd.conf file
> # Time-stamp: <13:11BST on Fri 10 Oct 2008 by mkb on
> veri.phy.umist.ac.uk>
> 
> [backup]
>         path = /data1/BACKUPS/ratty/
>         max connections = 1
>         comment = rsyncd backup
> 
> and it seems I have to be sudo to start the daemon:
> 
> mkb at veri:~$ sudo /usr/bin/rsync --daemon -v --no-detach
> 
> and then I can see said module from another machine:
> michael at ratty:~/bin$ rsync  veri.phy.umist.ac.uk::
> backup          rsyncd backup
> 
> So I believe that's the daemon running.

Although how do I start and restart it? I tried 
 kill -HUP 
but that seems to have half killed it since now I can't restart:
mkb at veri:~$ ps -elf|grep rsyncd
0 R mkb      11929 11392  0  80   0 - 17433 -      13:48 pts/2
00:00:00 grep rsyncd
mkb at veri:~$ sudo tail /var/log/messages
Oct 10 13:47:47 veri rsyncd[11922]: rsyncd version 2.6.9 starting,
listening on port 873 
Oct 10 13:47:47 veri rsyncd[11922]: bind() failed: Address already in
use (address-family 10) 
Oct 10 13:47:47 veri rsyncd[11922]: bind() failed: Address already in
use (address-family 2) 
Oct 10 13:47:47 veri rsyncd[11922]: unable to bind any inbound sockets
on port 873 
Oct 10 13:47:47 veri rsyncd[11922]: rsync error: error in socket IO
(code 10) at socket.c(477) [receiver=2.6.9] 
Oct 10 13:48:28 veri rsyncd[11926]: rsyncd version 2.6.9 starting,
listening on port 873 
Oct 10 13:48:28 veri rsyncd[11926]: bind() failed: Address already in
use (address-family 10) 
Oct 10 13:48:28 veri rsyncd[11926]: bind() failed: Address already in
use (address-family 2) 
Oct 10 13:48:28 veri rsyncd[11926]: unable to bind any inbound sockets
on port 873 
Oct 10 13:48:28 veri rsyncd[11926]: rsync error: error in socket IO
(code 10) at socket.c(477) [receiver=2.6.9]