rsync - Oct 2002 - How to run rsync as a daemon program taht runs at particular time given

Hi,
    I want to run rsync as a daemon program so that it can run at particular
time in nights given by us
    any help greatly appreciated
Thks in advance
--Venkat

On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:21:40PM -0400, Venkat Reddy Valluri
wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>     I want to run rsync as a daemon program so that it can run at
particular time in nights given by us
>     any help greatly appreciated
> Thks in advance
You want to run the daemon all the time and have the rsync clients connect to
it.  The client side should be run from cron or a windows scheduler.  The
clients pull from the rsyncd (which ever server you have that running on). 
Unless you have a specific security/capacity issue that requires you to only run
the daemon at certain times, there is no reason not to run it all the time. 
Hope this helps clarify.

-Mike
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On Fri, 4 Oct 2002 06:32, Mike J Crowl wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 03, 2002 at 04:21:40PM -0400, Venkat Reddy Valluri wrote:
> > Hi,
> >     I want to run rsync as a daemon program so that it can run at
> > particular time in nights given by us any help greatly appreciated
> > Thks in advance
>
> You want to run the daemon all the time and have the rsync clients connect
> to it.  The client side should be run from cron or a windows scheduler. 
 <snip>
If you are really trying to only run the daemon at certain times (say because 
of a capacity issue), that could also be done from cron. I assume that 
"windows scheduler" could also shut down the rsync daemon.

Another alternative would be to run it from xinetd, and put the limits in your 
xinetd.conf file. If you really have capacity issues, then running from 
xinetd does impose some overhead, but you can possibly do some fine grain 
control that might help with the loading.

Brad

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