Sorry, but that advice is wrong. Daniel's using the single colon so his rsyncd.conf is being ignored. Ross needs JD Paul's patch which hasn't bee integrated yet: http://lists.samba.org/pipermail/rsync/2001-December/005488.html
- Dave On Tue, Feb 05, 2002 at 11:58:55PM -0500, Daniel Ouellet wrote: > Sure you can. Unless you are looking for a log that I don't know about. > > All my server only have ssh and not only the log is written to a file on the > /var/log/rsyncd.log, but I did set it up to email me a copy of the transfer > activity. > > My crontab have: > > 15 * * * * /usr/local/bin/rsync -e > ssh -auvz --exclude "/*/logs/" --delete youruser@yourserver:/sites/ /sites > 2>&1 | tee /var/log/rsync.out | mail -s "`/bin/hostname` rsync update" root > > I run the server in daemon mode. > > The server side is: > > log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log > pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid > lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock > read only=yes > uid=nobody > gid=nobody > > And I setup my DSA key on the server to be trusted so that the cron don't > have to enter the password at every time. > > Finally there is two great articles on how to setup the SSH side of it with > the passphare instead of empty one. > > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc.html > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-keyc2/ > > Hope this help. > > Daniel > > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Ross Becker > Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 11:48 AM > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' > Subject: rsync usage... and I did RTFM > > > Hey folks, > I've been through the rsync documentation, and to the best of my ability, > I dont see how to do exactly what I wish to do. I'd go through the mailing > list archives, but there doesnt seem to be a search function. > > Essentially, I need to rsync securely between some sites, but I want logs > written. The problem is, it appears that using rsyncd is the only way to > get logs, but if you use rsyncd, there's no way to use ssh for secure > transfers. Is there any way to both get logs written and use ssh at the same > time? > > > Thanks > --Ross Becker >