View source for Rsync

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!Download Source:
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{{Package-Introduction|According to its website, rsync is an open source utility that provides fast incremental file transfer.|http://samba.anu.edu.au/rsync}}

== Dependencies ==

=== Optional ===
* [[Popt]] (Has an included version)
* [[Acl]]
* [[Attr]]

== Configuration Information ==

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|<i>--enable-acl-support</i> builds with acl support.
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== Creating the rsyncd User/Group ==

 groupadd -g 49 rsyncd &&
 useradd -c "rsyncd Daemon" -d /home/rsync -g rsyncd -s /bin/false -u 49 rsyncd

== Non-Multilib ==

Compile the package:

 ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
 make

Install the package:

 make install

== Multilib ==
'''''This package does not provide any libraries so only one installation is needed.'''''

=== 64Bit ===

Compile the package:

 CC="gcc ${BUILD64}" \
 ./configure --prefix=/usr &&
 make

Install the package:

 make install

== Configuring ==

If you would like to run the daemon create a config file and then the bootscript.

=== rsyncd.conf ===

Example configuration, See rsyncd.conf{5} and/or http://rsync.samba.org/documentation.html for more information:

 cat > /etc/rsyncd.conf << "EOF"
 motd file = /home/rsync/welcome.msg
 use chroot = yes
 uid = rsyncd
 gid = rsyncd
 
 [localhost]
   path = /home/rsync
   comment = Default rsync module
   read only = yes
   list = yes
 EOF

=== Bootscript ===

Install the init script provided by the [[bootscripts]] package:

 make install-rsyncd

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