Help: Can't get rsync to work - Mandriva

Hi,
I have a desktop and a laptop, both running Mandriva LE 2005.
These 2 machines are networked (10.200.1.0 network) and can ping eath
other both ways.
I run the rsync daemon on the latop (IP 10.200.1.198).
When I try to run rsync from the desktop (IP 10.200.1.10) I get the
following error message:

Command:
rsync -v 10.200.1.198::ghost/ .

Output:
@ERROR: chroot failed
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)

Running the above command, as root, with both firewalls disbaled resuled
in the same error.

THe latop's /etc/rsyncd.conf is as follows:

[ghost]
path /mnt/win_d
Comment Tal's laptop Ghost Images
hosts allow 10.200.1.10[root@localhost etc]#

Please advise !

TIA

Michael Badt <(E-Mail Removed)> writes:

>Hi,
>I have a desktop and a laptop, both running Mandriva LE 2005.
>These 2 machines are networked (10.200.1.0 network) and can ping eath
>other both ways.
>I run the rsync daemon on the latop (IP 10.200.1.198).
>When I try to run rsync from the desktop (IP 10.200.1.10) I get the
>following error message:

>Command:
> rsync -v 10.200.1.198::ghost/ .

>Output:
>@ERROR: chroot failed
>rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
>rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)

>Running the above command, as root, with both firewalls disbaled resuled
>in the same error.

>THe latop's /etc/rsyncd.conf is as follows:

>[ghost]
> path /mnt/win_d
> Comment Tal's laptop Ghost Images
> hosts allow 10.200.1.10[root@localhost etc]#

I have no idea what the square brackets in this line are supposed to be
for. Why not try removing them. Also an equal sign is needed.

hosts allow=10.200.1.10

Finally look in the /var/log files to on the server to find out what
happened.


>Please advise !

>TIA

On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:18:56 +0300, Michael Badt wrote:

> Command:
> rsync -v 10.200.1.198::ghost/ .
>
> Output:
> @ERROR: chroot failed
> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
>

Do you have a line like
"rsync stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/rsync rsyncd
--daemon" in the laptop's inetd.conf?

Do you need to specify the uid and gid of the user to run as in rsyncd.conf?

"rsync -vv ..." increases verbosity.

hth

--tim

Tim Lingard <usenet@lingard_demon_co_uk.NO.SPAM> writes:

>On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:18:56 +0300, Michael Badt wrote:

>> Command:
>> rsync -v 10.200.1.198::ghost/ .
>>
>> Output:
>> @ERROR: chroot failed
>> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
>> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
>>

>Do you have a line like
>"rsync stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/rsync rsyncd
>--daemon" in the laptop's inetd.conf?

Most use xinetd, not inetd these days. There you need a file called
/etc/xinetd.d/rsync with contents like

service rsync
{
disable = no
socket_type = stream
wait = no
user = root
server = /usr/bin/rsync
server_args = --daemon
log_on_failure += USERID
}


>Do you need to specify the uid and gid of the user to run as in rsyncd.conf?

>"rsync -vv ..." increases verbosity.

>hth

>--tim

In comp.os.linux.networking Unruh <unruh-(E-Mail Removed)>:
> Tim Lingard <usenet@lingard_demon_co_uk.NO.SPAM> writes:

>>On Sat, 02 Jul 2005 14:18:56 +0300, Michael Badt wrote:

>>> Command:
>>> rsync -v 10.200.1.198::ghost/ .
>>>
>>> Output:
>>> @ERROR: chroot failed
>>> rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
>>> rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
>>>

>>Do you have a line like
>>"rsync stream tcp nowait root /usr/local/bin/rsync rsyncd
>>--daemon" in the laptop's inetd.conf?

> Most use xinetd, not inetd these days. There you need a file called
> /etc/xinetd.d/rsync with contents like

I'd simply use 'rsync -e ssh ...', no need for a running rsync
daemon, you only need the rsync binary in place on the other
system.

Alternatively use unison (through ssh) it even has a nifty GUI.

--
Michael Heiming (X-PGP-Sig > GPG-Key ID: EDD27B94)
mail: echo (E-Mail Removed) | perl -pe 'y/a-z/n-za-m/'
#bofh excuse 1: clock speed

Thanks everybody for all your useful information

Michael Badt


Unruh wrote:

> I have no idea what the square brackets in this line are supposed to be
> for. Why not try removing them. Also an equal sign is needed.
>
> hosts allow=10.200.1.10
>
> Finally look in the /var/log files to on the server to find out what
> happened.