rsyncd: --temp-dir outside of module or target target

[frank.gruellich at here.com]

Hi,

I'm running rsyncd in daemon mode started via xinetd.  My
/etc/rsyncd.conf looks like:

[cache]
	path = /mnt/tst_vol_aws/sat_p_cache/
	comment = Cache Directory
	use chroot = false
	read only = false
	uid = someone
	gid = someone
	dont compress = *

On the client I run:

/usr/bin/rsync --delete --ignore-errors -gpzsoltD --temp-dir=/mnt/tst_vol_aws/tmp/rsync -r /mnt/tst_vol_aws/sat_p_cache/ rsync://$server_ip/cache/

which gives me the following errors:

Aug  5 10:33:24 ip-10-209-129-163 rsyncd[3028]: rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/tst_vol_aws/sat_p_cache/mnt/tst_vol_aws/tmp/rsync//.80940_158425.n2v31h" (in cache) failed: No such file or directory (2)
Aug  5 10:33:24 ip-10-209-129-163 rsyncd[3028]: rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/tst_vol_aws/sat_p_cache/mnt/tst_vol_aws/tmp/rsync//.80940_158426.8v42GW" (in cache) failed: No such file or directory (2)
Aug  5 10:33:24 ip-10-209-129-163 rsyncd[3028]: rsync: mkstemp "/mnt/tst_vol_aws/sat_p_cache/mnt/tst_vol_aws/tmp/rsync//.80940_158427.5LDOmB" (in cache) failed: No such file or directory (2)

It seems it tries to create --temp-dir inside the module or target path.
That's not desired in my case as rsync is started via lsyncd which
watches /mnt/tst_vol_aws/sat_p_cache/ for changes, so rsync doing
temporary changes there would cause lsynd to spin in circles.  The
lsyncd documentation recommends to have --temp-dir outside, eg. in
/tmp/.  However, I fail to get that configured.  I tried setting the
module path to /mnt/tst_vol_aws/, do rsync to
rsync://$server_ip/cache/sat_p_cache/ with a --temp-dir=tmp/rsync/,
however, that resulted in a pretty similar error message (clueing that
it's actually the target path defining the root for --temp-dir.  The
--inplace option is also not a way to go.

Any idea how to do this?  Thanks a lot.

Kind regards,
 Frank.