Still not much progress but I've simplified things. In Fedora, rsync daemon is supposed to be run by systemctl. But I am pretty sure my attempt to create a service for rsync as a daemon has failed somewhere. So I'm debuggin by using the simple command line: sudo rsync ---daemon
By the way, rsync does not accept the --foreground command as a daemon Furthermore, the ps x | grep rsync does NOT show me the fact that the daemon is running, but I have every clue that it is, or at least seems to be as hope you will agree. I can inspect the rsync daemon log, showing a sequence of testing that I performed: a) 2017/07/14 15:04:52 [3129] rsync: failed to create pid file /var/run/rsyncd.pid: File exists (17) ---- that was me trying to run the daemon a second time as part of a test. Anyway, at that point I killed the process shown in the pid file and then I deleted the pid file. b) Then I tested rsync localhost.localdomain:: to prove that the daemon is NOT running: 2017/07/14 15:04:52 [3129] rsync error: error in file IO (code 11) at clientserver.c(1113) [Receiver=3.1.2] c) Then I launched the daemon again: 2017/07/14 15:05:43 [3233] rsyncd version 3.1.2 starting, listening on port 873 d) Then I ran rsync localhost.localdomain:: which displayed the module name in the terminal and this log entry resulted: 2017/07/14 15:05:54 [3241] connect from localhost (::1) 2017/07/14 15:05:54 [3241] module-list request from localhost (::1) e) Lastly, I commanded backuppc to run a full backup of this "client" (it's actually the server itself). Backuppc went into idle with an immediate backup failure. The rsync daemon log shows: 2017/07/14 15:06:17 [3292] connect from localhost (::1) 2017/07/14 15:06:17 [3292] rsync denied on module Backup-Data-Folder from localhost (::1) So I have to find out why the rsync daemon is denying access to backuppc. Is it the backuppc configuration? Backuppc is configured as rsyncd, connected as root with the root password. Just in case, I put root and root password into the secrets file. This is a lot of overkill! Here is my rsyncd.conf file. I allow the host's ip and the domain name just in case. There are a few remant lines from other attempts that I hope are not hurting the config. I think The motd line is a remnant of my attempts to run rsync daemon using a service. I hope it is not interfering with this simpler approach launching the daemon from the command line: ####################################################################### ## ## RSYNCD config file for the backuppc server ## ####################################################################### transfer logging = false lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid port=873 address=localhost.localdomain uid=root gid=root use chroot=yes read only = no ## host allow: this is important. ## In my case leaving the subnet-mask leads to a failure, ## so I only provide the IP. hosts allow = 192.168.0.217, localhost.localdomain motd file=/etc/rsyncd/rsyncd.motd ## Now you have to declare, in brackets, the RSYNC 'module', or "share name" as it is called within backuppc [Backup-Data-Folder] ## Next, set the path you want backed up. Be sure to use a trailing slash path = / read only = no list = yes auth users = root hosts allow = 192.168.0.217, localhost.localdomain secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets ## the easiest way is to use the root user ## This user has "ROOT"-privileges, so he can save files. uid = root gid = nogroup # uid = backuppc # gid = backuppc ########################################################## Bob Katz, hope someone can catch my error. Very sorry for the bandwidth. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out the vibrant tech community on one of the world's most engaging tech sites, Slashdot.org! http://sdm.link/slashdot _______________________________________________ BackupPC-users mailing list BackupPC-users@lists.sourceforge.net List: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/backuppc-users Wiki: http://backuppc.wiki.sourceforge.net Project: http://backuppc.sourceforge.net/
