Re: Rsync daemon in PASE

[BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Thanks to everyone for their responses. I contacted IBM, but since IBM AIX 
Toolbox for Linux Applications is not officially supported, the support 
rep. didn't offer much help. He did refer me to this link on rsync, which 
was useful and got me thinking:

http://www.computerhope.com/unix/rsync.htm

My original understanding was that for rysnc to work on IBM i with a 
remote client, it had to run in daemon mode, but that is not necessarily 
case. Rsync will work in conjunction with the SSH daemon running on the 
server, which is probably better and more secure. I created a file on my 
Mac OS X machine, opened a terminal and then ran the following command:

rsync [OPTION...] SRC... [USER@]HOST:DEST

E.g., rsync test.txt blake@webserver:/home/blake

I checked the directory in the IFS on the web server, and the file was 
there. Then I tried syncing a directory from my Mac, and that worked as 
well. I am still learning all the ins and outs of rsync, but for my 
purposes, I think I have what I need -- syncing files and folders both 
locally on the server and remotely to the server. My guess is that I could 
easily automate synchronization with SSH keys, though I haven't tried that 
yet. The only caveat with this method is that it requires sshd running on 
the IBM i server.

Blake


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date: Tue, 11 Mar 2014 08:15:37 -0600
from: Jim Essinger
subject: Re: [WEB400] Rsync daemon in PASE

Blake,

I installed rsync and one the web programmers configured it to run with
Amazon based content servers. He may have contacted IBM for help with
configuration.  I have looked for the config files to see if there is any
hint there for you, but have as yet been unable to locate them. If I
remember that long, I will try to as when I see the programmer next, but
that is not until Friday.

Jim Essinger
Western Power Sports
Boise, ID



On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 8:39 AM, <BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Jim,
>
> As I mentioned to Jack, the only config files I am using are rsyncd.conf
> and rsyncd.scrt in /etc. For those, I followed the example in the MC 
Press
> article. His setup is similar to examples I've seen from others running 
on
> other platforms. Any tips?
>
> Thanks,
> Blake
>
>
> date: Sat, 8 Mar 2014 08:25:26 -0700
> from: Jim Essinger
> subject: Re: [WEB400] Rsync daemon in PASE
>
> We use it all the time to sync between our servers and external content
> servers.  We are at 7.1 of i5/OS. I too think you have a config issue.
>
> Jim Essinger
> Western Power Sports
> Boise, ID
> On Mar 7, 2014 3:02 PM, <BButterworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > Has anyone had success getting the rsync daemon to work in 7.1? I have
> > installed version 3.1.0-1 from Michael Perzl's website, along with 
popt
> > 1.16-1 (dependency). I would like to configure it to run as a daemon 
to
> > synchronize files for our website from a development machine to the 
IFS.
> > The rsync executable runs fine to sync files from one directory to
> another
> > in the IFS (for example), but it fails when started as a 
daemon/server.
> > When I check, nothing is running on the default port 873.
> >
> > Command:
> > rsync --daemon --log-file=/tmp/rsync.log
> >
> > Log:
> > 2014/03/07 15:49:50 [47147] name lookup failed for : Address family 
not
> > supported
> > 2014/03/07 15:49:50 [47147] connect from UNKNOWN ()
> > 2014/03/07 15:49:50 [47147] rsync: safe_write failed to write 14 bytes
> to
> > socket [Receiver]: No such device (19)
> > 2014/03/07 15:49:50 [47147] rsync error: error in rsync protocol data
> > stream (code 12) at io.c(337) [Receiver=3.1.0]
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Blake