rsync - Dec 2004 - wish: module max connections

Hello,
I am not subscribed to the list, but I would like to post a wish for the
rsyncd functionality.

Currently, the option "max connections" allow to limit the sum of all
connections, but, it seems to me, that there is no way to get
something like a "module max connections".

The problem I have is that some people run rsync to my system with
cron, every day, but if the syncronization is not completed after a day,
another rsync is run in parallel, and that is not good.

I thounth to resolve the problem, making a module configuration for
every one who have to sync, but allowing only a single connection.
The result I get with "max connections = 1" is that only one
connection
is allowed, but I would like to allow a connection to the other.

I hope that I was able to explain what I mean.

Thank you for your attention.
If you want to answer to me, please remember to put my address inside
the CC filed. :-)


Saluti/Regards/Gruesse, 
daniele giacomini - daniele (ad) swlibero.org

On Wed, Dec 29, 2004 at 06:47:32PM +0100, daniele giacomini
wrote:
> Currently, the option "max connections" allow to limit the sum of
all
> connections, but, it seems to me, that there is no way to get
> something like a "module max connections".
There is a way to do this if you're willing to separate all the modules.
If you put each module into its own config file, set "max connections"
to 1 in each file, assign each one a unique port, and then start a
separate daemon for each module, you can prevent anyone from connecting
to a module twice.  You do lose the ability to limit the total number of
connections to something less than the total number of modules, however,
and you will need to tell the folks connecting to your system to start
using their assigned port number, but other than that it should work as
you desire.

..wayne..