problem with rsync-daemon via ssh

[Kevin Korb]

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OK, I just did a quickie test.  When I 'ssh user at host rsync --daemon
- --server .' an I don't have an rsyncd.conf file in my home dir I get
no output like you do (an error message here would be nice).  If I do
have a proper rsyncd.conf file I get rsyncd's server banner.

So, what's in your /root/rsyncd.conf file?

On 02/17/2014 09:02 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
> Kevin Korb (kmk at sanitarium.net) wrote on 14 February 2014 12:51:
>> Try running that ssh command line yourself and see what it says.
> 
> Doesn't say anything. But rsync is indeed run. I changed it to
> this script:
> 
> #!/bin/bash
> 
> echo "run!" echo "run!"
> 
> and
> 
> ural#  rsync -avv -e "ssh -l root" ./orig/ machine::module/ opening
> connection using: ssh -l root machine rsync --server --daemon .  (8
> args) rsync: server sent "run!" rather than greeting rsync error:
> error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1635)
> [sender=3.1.1pre1]
> 
> Using a higher debugging (with the real rsync):
> 
> ural#   rsync -a --debug=all4 -e "ssh -l root" ./orig/
> machine::module/ FILE_STRUCT_LEN=24, EXTRA_LEN=4 cmd=ssh -l root
> machine=machine user=<NULL> path=module/ cmd[0]=ssh cmd[1]=-l
> cmd[2]=root cmd[3]=machine cmd[4]=rsync cmd[5]=--server
> cmd[6]=--daemon cmd[7]=. opening connection using: ssh -l root
> machine rsync --server --daemon .  (8 args) msg checking charset:
> ANSI_X3.4-1968 [sender] safe_read(5)=0 rsync: did not see server
> greeting [sender] _exit_cleanup(code=5, file=main.c, line=1635):
> entered rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5)
> at main.c(1635) [sender=3.1.1pre1] [sender] _exit_cleanup(code=5,
> file=main.c, line=1635): about to call exit(5) [sender] sending
> MSG_ERROR_EXIT with exit_code 5 [sender] send_msg_int(86, 5)
> 
> So rsync is run at the remote end but doesn't answer with the
> server greeting the client expects.
> 
>> On 02/14/2014 06:34 AM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>>> Kevin Korb (kmk at sanitarium.net) wrote on 13 February 2014
>>> 21:47:
>>>> modules are defined in an rsyncd.conf file.  That file needs
>>>> to be in the home dir of the user.
>>> 
>>> You mean the config file must be called "rsyncd.conf" instead
>>> of "module"? That'd be easy to solve but unfortunately it
>>> didn't work. I changed the name, put the following in it
>>> 
>>> [module] path = /path/to/home/transfer
>>> 
>>> and I still get the same "did not see server greeting" error.
>>> 
>>>> On 02/13/2014 08:38 PM, Carlos Carvalho wrote:
>>>>> I'm trying to transfer something to another machine
>>>>> launching a once-only "daemon" through ssh with this
>>>>> command:
>>>>> 
>>>>> rsync -avv -e "ssh -l user" ./orig/ machine::module/
>>>>> 
>>>>> where "module" is the name of a file in the home dir of
>>>>> user with the following:
>>>>> 
>>>>> path = /path/to/home/transfer
>>>>> 
>>>>> The ssh connection works without passphrase. This is the 
>>>>> error:
>>>>> 
>>>>> opening connection using: ssh -l user machine rsync
>>>>> --server --daemon .  (8 args) rsync: did not see server
>>>>> greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol
>>>>> (code 5) at main.c(1635) [sender=3.1.1pre1]
> 

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