Jean Thanks for your great write up starting this thread. I thankfully used your directions and compiled rsync to attempt to do the same: using Rsync to update the files on the Touch
You mentioned that you never got the rsync daemon to use its congifurations settings file rsyncd.conf I figured out why: you were using the commandine using the notation: root@ipaddress:'sda1/Music' After digging in the rsync documentation I found out that this form actually does not talk to the rsync daemon but sets up a ssh link to the ssh running on the iTouch. I figured out that if you when you use the notation: root@ipaddress::Music it actually does use the rsyncd.conf file and actually talks to the daemon, I subsequently changed the rsyncd.conf file from your version to what you see below. Now you can actually also see log entries in the log file, and it works like a charm. Ok it's 2013, so one might think, duhh, still playing with that ol' thing. But actually I have 4 SB players in my house and my daughter that recently left the house said: dad I want to be able to use all the music we have in the house. I bought a second hand iTouch, and can now sync over a VPN that my daugther sets up from her dorm to our house. Works really nice! Again, thanks for all your work. Hope this can help some others goofing around still with the Touch. By the way: I also had this problem with the timezone, but I 'fixed' that by letting the iTouch also do the initial loading up of the music through this solution of yours. Then the time zone difference is not there. This is my rsync script on my daughters Mac: ./rsync_Mac/rsync --log-file=log --modify-window=5 -rtvO --delete --progress --stats -i '/Volumes/ghosts/Muziek_NT/' root@192.168.3.158::Music This is the secrets file on the iTouch: root:1234 This is the rsync.conf file on the iTouch (placed in /etc) # /etc/rsyncd.conf # Minimal configuration file for rsync daemon # See rsync(1) and rsyncd.conf(5) man pages for help # This file is required by rsync --daemon uid = root gid = root incoming chmod = ugo=rwx pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log hosts allow = * secrets file = /usr/bin/rsync.secrets [Music] path = /root/sda1/Music/ use chroot = no max connections = 1 auth users = root read only = no ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Luos3m's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=59795 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=81755 _______________________________________________ Touch mailing list Touch@lists.slimdevices.com http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/touch
