rsync - Oct 2003 - rsync --server --daemon is listening on stdin?

Hi-

I've been trying to setup an rsync server on a WinXP box so that I can
sync files between my desktop and laptop.  I'm starting rsync as:

rsync --server --daemon --no-detach .

from a command prompt.

but I can never connect to it -- even "telnet localhost 873"
doesn't
work. It seems that rsync is listening on stdin, rather than listening
on a socket.

When I type at it I immediately get an error message --

  @ERROR: protocol startup error

Is there anything special I need to do to convince rsync to use a
socket instead of stdin/stdout?  The only info I can find in the
documentation says that in daemon mode it will test stdin in to see if
it is a socket. Presumably it is failing this test, and therefore
should be starting its own socket, right?

-Matthew

On Sun, Oct 19, 2003 at 04:20:30PM -0700, Matthew Eldridge
wrote:
> rsync --server --daemon --no-detach .
The --server command is only use by rsync to talk to itself.  The only
mention of it in the man page is in the context of how to setup ssh to
allow rsync to run such a command when it connects to a remote system
using a limited ssh setup.  You're just supposed to use --daemon.

..wayne..