configuring rsync daemon

[Maciej Szewczykowski]

Dear All,

I've installed rsync in order to synchronize data between to b2600 machines.

There are two possibilities to use rsync, as you know:

1) via secure shell (single colon :) - i would choose this option if i knew where to get an appropriate version of secure shell from (the one available at software.hp.com somehow doesn't suite the b2600 machine)

2) via direct contacting rsync daemon (double colon ::). however in order to do this, i need to have it configured.

Anybody know the simpliest solution?

Thx in advance,

Maciek

[Luk Vandenbussche]

Hi,

I should work through SSH

You can download the versions from

http://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/displayProductInfo.do?productNumber=T1471AA

or do you have HPUX 10.20 on your B2600?

[Maciej Szewczykowski]

Thanks,

I've got HPUX 11.0.
Does it change anything?

[Arunvijai_4]

You can install latest SSH on your 11.0 and try to configure rsync. It should work.

https://h20293.www2.hp.com/portal/swdepot/try.do?productNumber=T1471AA

-Arun

[Maciej Szewczykowski]

thanks a lot! i've succeeded in ssh installation, however the connection via rsync is being refused.

i do something like this:
$ rsync -t * remotehost:remotedir

and it says

error in rsync protocol data stream.
now, what's this?

[Maciej Szewczykowski]

it actually says:
remshd: login incorrect.

what to do in this case?

[Muthukumar_5]

> remshd: login incorrect. >

Just create .rhosts file in remote machine's root user HOME Directory. It will work.

Login as root,
cat > $HOME/.rhosts
+ +


# chmod 400 $HOME/.rhosts

Try now. It will work.

hth.

[Maciej Szewczykowski]

i've created .rhosts file in root directory / (in my system variable $HOME is not set for root).
the file looks like this

172.23.56.56 username

it's placed in remote file system, access rights are set to 400.
however the connection is still being refused.

do i have to use rsync as root only? if not, am i to create .rhosts file for the user that uses rsync?

help me i'm in hell.

[Geoff Wild]

You need .rhosts in the "username" directory - r/o by username.

BTW - you can also use rdist for what you want as well...

Rgds...Geoff

[Maciej Szewczykowski]

thanks a lot!
with your help i've managed to solve the problem.

regards,

maciek

[Patrick Preuss]

But you don't use ssh, if you whant to say:

rsync -e ssh -rav

for userauth use then ssh key's or the .shosts file.

hth
patrick marc

[Florian Heigl (new acc)]

Patrick is right, all other solutions won't use ssh :)