On 2017-07-13 10:03, Bob Katz wrote:
On 7/12/17 11:08 AM, Les Mikesell wrote:
I noticed in your rsyncd.conf that you are running it as user
backuppc. That probably will prevent it from accessing ports below
1024 unless it starts as root. Also, you won't be able to back up
all
of the files on the machine.
Thanks, Les. You can also see by the commented lines in my rsyncd.conf
that I had tried user "root" in the past with no success so in
desperation I tried user backuppc. At this moment to get things
started, I have been manually launching
sudo rsync --daemon
so it is launching with root privileges. And at some point in my
iteration it made the PID successfully but not anymore so maybe the
daemon is already running BUT I'm having no success finding a command
to stop the daemon from running on fedora. There is a "cat" command
I've seen but it fails. There must be a foolproof way of displaying
running daemons, finding out the PID and killing it. The PS command
that everyone is fond of does not show the daemon is runnning, I don't
believe.
For secrets to work is it sufficient to have a secrets line in the
conf file and a secrets file with the user name and password? I never
use secrets on any of my other hosts and added the secrets line on the
server conf in desperation.
In the conf file would you agree that it would be ok to change the uid
back to root?
Then when it still fails I'm flailing in the dark. I'm stretching the
limits of my linux knowledge also, as you can see.
Sorry,
Bob
--
Just to clear something up -- "sudo rsync --daemon" launches rsyncd with
root privileges *initially*, which then reads the rsyncd.conf file (if
any), which then switches to the uid/gid contained therein (if any) IF
launched as root, or, failing that, falls back to -2/-2.
At this point, I'd recommend
sudo rsync --daemon --foreground --verbose
So you can actually tell what's happening.
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