rsync version 2.6.3 protocol version 28 - hosts allow dows not work

[f***@gmavt.net]

Hello all. Rsync rocks, however I am having problems with two things:

1. The hosts allow directive does not allow the use of a hostname. (DNS is
working for I can do a NSLOOKUP on the hostname and it resolves). If I put
the IP address it works fine, problem is that we run DHCP at the office
and my lease expires every 4 days.

2. Rsync is not logging to /var/log/rsyncd.log.

The following is my /etc/rsyncd.conf file on my Gentoo 2005.0 (kernel
2.6.11-gentoo-r11 kernel)
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# Distributed under the terms of the GNU General Public License v2
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-misc/rsync/files/rsyncd.conf,v
1.3 2004/07/15 00:11:37 agriffis Exp $

# Minimal configuration file for rsync daemon
# See rsync(1) and rsyncd.conf(5) man pages for help

# This line is required by the /etc/init.d/rsyncd script
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid

uid = nobody
gid = nobody
use chroot = yes
max connections = 10
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
motd file = /etc/rsync/rsyncd.motd
transfer logging = yes
log format = %t %a %m %f %b
syslog facility = local3
timeout = 300

[bjwbackup]
path = /rsync/bweaver
comment = Brent's Backup sync site
read only = no
guest ok = yes
public = yes
create mask = 0777

[jlbackup]
path = /rsync/jliscenski
comment = Joe's Backup sync site
read only = no
guest ok = yes
public = yes
create mask = 0777
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I would also like to know how to set the protections to 777 on the
files/dirs that I create on my rsync mirror. I would like to use the
delete option so that it totaly keeps my laptop in sync w/ my rsync
mirror.

What am I missing here? Any help is GREATLY appreciated for I am using
this to backup my laptop to my linux box, and rsync is the way to do it!

[Wayne Davison]

DNS is working for I can do a NSLOOKUP on the hostname and it
resolves.

Yes, but can you do an nslookup on the IP and get the hostname? If not,
rsync won't accept it.

There are several options that will fix this:

- Fix the DNS setup so that it keeps the reverse-DNS in sync with the
forward-DNS.
- Get someone to modify the DHCP setup at your office to map your
system's MAC address to a constant IP address.
- Periodically update the rsync.conf file with the latest IP number from
an nslookup of the hostname (which the running rsync daemon will
honor, since it re-reads the config file whenever a new connection
comes in).
- Switch over to using an ssh connection for the copy.

2. Rsync is not logging to /var/log/rsyncd.log.

Your config file doesn't define "log file", just "syslog facility".
Either you need to modify the syslog setup to put local3 into that file,
or tell rsync to use the file directly via the "log file" option.

I would also like to know how to set the protections to 777 on the
files/dirs that I create on my rsync mirror.

If you want more permissive permissions than the source files, there's
no way to get rsync to do that for you -- the closest you can come is to
leave off the --perms option and manually expand the permissions of
newly transferred files (updates to existing files will retain the
destination's permissions). See also the patches/chmod-option.diff file
in the rsync distribution for an option that lets you force pemission
bits.

..wayne..