Re: rsync problem

[Gerhard Venter <gventer@africonnect.com>]

francois mounier wrote:

> it returns this error
> @ERROR: invalid gid nobody
> rsync: connection inexpectedly closed (39 bytes read so far)
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at
> io.c(150)
I don't know if Debian is different, but rsync can work with its own 
users and passwords (i.e they don't have to be, or should probably not 
be Unix users), in a file called rsyncd.secrets.  In a non-Debian setup 
I have this  line in the rsync.d file:
   secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets

The file /etc/rsyncd.secrets contains:
   mirroruser:mirroruser'spassword

The client can have a file (which can be called rsyncpassword or 
anything, because you specify it in the command)
Then the client runs:
rsync -acvz -P --timeout=6000 --stats --password-file=/etc/rsyncpassword 
mirroruser@192.168.1.2::test/ /var/www

Gerhard