how to start rsync daemon on fedora

[Matt McCutchen]

On Fri, 2008-10-10 at 13:49 +0100, michael wrote:
> 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 

As Wayne said, this may be because xinetd is competing with your
manually-started daemon for control of port 873.  You should either
enable the xinetd service with chkconfig or start the daemon manually
with "rsync --daemon", but not both.  If that isn't the problem, run
"netstat -a --inet --program" as root to see what process is listening
on the port.

Matt