What's in rsyncd.excludes, and what's the command line. A common
problem
is that people don't know exactly which path components to include in
the exclude list. Using -vv often helps with debugging excludes.
- Dave Dykstra
On Fri, Apr 26, 2002 at 11:26:38AM -0400, Paul Slinski
wrote:> I am attempting to utilize the exclude from option in my rsync
configuration
> file (rather than maintain lists on users machines) but it does not appear
to
> be working.
>
> One example, I placed *.mp3 in the file to keep them from syncing mp3 files
to
> the server and jamming up space. But rsync just seems to ignore this and
> syncs the files anyway without any errors to the syslog.
>
> All of my configurations are in /etc
>
> Here is rsyncd.conf
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
> max connections = 2
> use chroot = yes
> motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
> log file = /arch1/sync/rsync.log
>
> [test]
> path = /arch1/sync/paul
> list = false
> read only = false
> uid = 900
> gid = 900
> exclude from = /etc/rsyncd.excludes
> auth users = paul
> secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
> hosts allow = 192.168.10.10
>
> ---------------------
> And file permissions
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 355 Apr 26 11:21 /etc/rsyncd.conf
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 344 Apr 26 10:20
/etc/rsyncd.excludes
> -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 242 Apr 26 10:36 /etc/rsyncd.motd
> -rw------- 1 root root 14 Apr 26 10:34 /etc/rsyncd.secrets
>
> I've looked around the web and archives for an answer, so now I turn to
you.
> Any suggestions are welcome.
>
> --
> Paul Slinski
> System Administrator
> Global IQX
> http://www.globaliqx.com/
> pauls@globaliqx.com