Hi, do you run the script with $ROOTCMD? Then I guess you have to drop the $ROOTCMD inside the script and also copy the rsync pw file to somewhere inside /target. Or handle everthing without the chroot.
/BR Bjarne Sent from Samsung Mobile -------- Original message -------- From: "John G. Heim" <jh...@math.wisc.edu> Date: 03/09/2014 17:46 (GMT+01:00) To: linux-fai@uni-koeln.de Subject: Totally stumped: Cannot run rsync via ROOTCMD I have been working on a problem on and off for weeks. I am trying to run rsync via a ROOTCMD in a script. During an install, the rsync does nothing. If I ssh to the machine during the install and run the script manually, it works. It also works when run via fai softupdate after the install. I've even cut/pasted the rsync command from the script, sshed to the machine during the install,typed 'chroot /target', and pasted the command into the ssh window. So I know the rsync command works if you change root to /target. It's just that during an install, when run via the fai installer, it does nothing. I'll cut/paste the whole script at the end of this message but here is a list of some of the versions of the command that I have tried: 1. ${ROOTCMD} rsync --archive --delete --numeric-ids --hard-links --password-file=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.key faiserver::local/ /usr/local/ 2. ${ROOTCMD} /usr/bin/rsync --archive --delete --numeric-ids --hard-links --password-file=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.key faiserver::local/ /usr/local/ 3. ${ROOTCMD} /usr/bin/rsync --progress --archive --delete --numeric-ids --hard-links --password-file=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.key faiserver::local/ /usr/local/ >> /root/install.log 4. ${ROOTCMD} bash -c "/usr/bin/rsync --progress --archive --delete --numeric-ids --hard-links --password-file=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.key faiserver::local/ /usr/local/ >> /root/install.log" Note: When the script fails during an install, /root/install.log is empty. Here is the entire script: #! /bin/bash error=0 ; trap "error=$((error|1))" ERR fcopy -B -m root,root,0600 /usr/local/etc/rsyncd.key echo "Beginning rsync" ${ROOTCMD} bash -c "/usr/bin/rsync --progress --archive --delete --numeric-ids --hard-links --password-file=/usr/local/etc/rsyncd.key faiserver::local/ /usr/local/ >> /root/install.log" exit $error # EOF