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

[Kevin Korb]

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The solution would be to use rsync over ssh instead of rsyncd.  With
rsyncd you can only access stuff inside the defined module.

On 08/05/13 10:44, frank.gruellich at here.com wrote:
> 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.
> 

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