rsync - Nov 2006 - How to process files on the server side after a sync?

Hello,
I have a low speed (1-3Kb/s) openvpn connection between a server and a 
client, and I sync files once every hour from the client to the server 
with rsync contacting the daemon directly through the vpn tunnel. When 
the files has come in to the server it would like the server to do some 
processing, and there is where I get stuck. I found the --rsync-path 
option and thought I could run a script (which runs another script after 
rsync and process the files) but that seems to work only when a 
remote-shell transport is specified, and not contacting the rsync daemon 
directly?

How would you solve what I try to do: Process files on the server side 
right after a sync when the client is using the rsync daemon directly 
through a vpn?

Thank you in advance,
Daniel

On Wed, Nov 15, 2006 at 03:21:02PM +0100, Daniel wrote:
> How would you solve what I try to do: Process files on the server side 
> right after a sync when the client is using the rsync daemon directly 
> through a vpn?
That's what the "post-xfer exec" config item is for.  It
doesn't allow
the sender to specify the command (since a daemon doesn't like to trust
the client that much), so if you need different post-xfer commands,
you'll need to either use multiple modules or add logic to your script
to work out what is supposed to happen when.

I'd recommend using 2.6.9 for this, as it has an RSYNC_PID value in the
environment that can make it easy to forward values to the post-xfer
exec command that are only available to the pre-xfer exec command
(should you need that). 

..wayne..