[LUNA] rsync(d) question ....

[Branden Harper]

Is rsyncd on q6600 running as root or as a different unprivileged user?

On Fri, Aug 7, 2015 at 9:43 AM, William A. Mahaffey III <wam at hiwaay.net>
wrote:

>
>
> .... I am trying to use rsync to archive my /etc directory on my
> FC14-x86_64 box onto another box for safe-keeping. I am pulling from the
> other box (NetBSD 6.1.5 64-bit) using the following command:
>
> 4256EE1 # whoami
> root
> 4256EE1 # rsync -avviiz root at q6600::etc  /home/rsync/Q6600/etc
> opening tcp connection to q6600 port 873
> sending daemon args: --server --sender -vvlogDtprze.iLsfx . etc/  (5 args)
> receiving incremental file list
> rsync: readlink_stat("/sysctl.conf" (in etc)) failed: Permission denied
> (13)
> rsync: readlink_stat("/openvpn" (in etc)) failed: Permission denied (13)
> rsync: readlink_stat("/aliases" (in etc)) failed: Permission denied (13)
> rsync: readlink_stat("/.pwd.lock" (in etc)) failed: Permission denied (13)
>
> I am obviously having permission issues :-). I have xinetd activating
> rsyncd. I *think* my install of rsync & xinetd are box stock, but hard to
> be sure w/ the OS this old (I will be upgrading to CentOS in the near
> future, part of my interest in archiving my /etc to preserve lots of
> configuration magic). I see the following in my messages files on the Q6600
> FC14 box:
>
>
> Aug  7 09:27:44 Q6600 xinetd[1678]: START: rsync pid=1377
> from=::ffff:192.168.0.7
> Aug  7 09:27:44 Q6600 rsyncd[1377]: connect from 4256EE1 (192.168.0.7)
> Aug  7 09:27:44 Q6600 rsyncd[1377]: rsync on etc/ from 4256ee1
> (192.168.0.7)
> Aug  7 09:27:45 Q6600 rsyncd[1377]: building file list
> Aug  7 09:27:45 Q6600 rsyncd[1377]: rsync: readlink_stat("/sysctl.conf"
> (in etc)) failed: Permission denied (13)
> Aug  7 09:27:45 Q6600 rsyncd[1377]: rsync: readlink_stat("/openvpn" (in
> etc)) failed: Permission denied (13)
> Aug  7 09:27:45 Q6600 rsyncd[1377]: rsync: readlink_stat("/aliases" (in
> etc)) failed: Permission denied (13)
> Aug  7 09:27:45 Q6600 rsyncd[1377]: rsync: readlink_stat("/.pwd.lock" (in
> etc)) failed: Permission denied (13)
>
> I also tried the rsync-pull as my regular user (which is what I ultimately
> want to do if possible), same issue. I su-ed to root on the NetBSD box (as
> per their recommendations) & have been doing that for years under Linux, I
> don't *think* that's the issue but who knows. Any clues what is going on
> here (i.e. why doesn't the rsync-pull get *everything* from my /etc
> directory onto the remote box) ? *Any* clues appreciated. TIA & have a good
> one.
>
>
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>
>         William A. Mahaffey III
>
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