Re: rsync problem

[francois mounier <irt01.mouf@isaip.uco.fr>]

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> 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

I ve found the problem...
In the rsyncd.conf file
I add this line
gid = nogroup

and now its working very well...
Thanks for the command line very usefull..

Bye
Francois