rsync - Dec 2004 - rsync works fine when I'm root on the client, but not as a non-root user

Rsync version: rsync-2.6.3.tar.gz
<http://samba.anu.edu.au/ftp/rsync/rsync-2.6.3.tar.gz> 
OS: Fedora
 
Can anyone give me some pointers?  I can do and rsync fine when I'm root
on the client, but not as a non-root user..
 
This works:
/usr/local/bin/rsync --archive --verbose --recursive --links
--rsh="ssh"
root@someserver.net::mail .
 
This does not:
/usr/local/bin/rsync --archive --verbose --recursive --links
--rsh="ssh"
gcarmich@someserver.net::mail .
 
Dies with error:
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far)
[receiver]
rsync error: error in rsync protocol data stream (code 12) at io.c(359)
 
With a non root user, ssh will authenticate them, but then the rsync
process dies.  The gcarmich user has a link from
/home/gcarmich/rsyncd.conf to /etc/rsyncd.conf
 
Permissions on the servers rsync are:
-rwxr-xr-x  1 root root 1258281 Dec  8 09:52 /usr/local/bin/rsync
 
My config file looks like:
 
uid = nobody 
gid = nobody 
use chroot = no 
max connections = 5
syslog facility = local5
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
log file = /etc/rsync.log

 

[mail]
        path = /home/gcarmich/test
        comment = Sendmail Files 
 
Permissions on the /home/gcarmich/test directory are:
 
drwxrwxr-x   2 gcarmich gcarmich 4.0K Dec  8 10:50 .
drwx--x--x  16 gcarmich gcarmich 4.0K Dec  8 11:05 ..
-rw-rw-rw-   1 root     root        7 Dec  8 10:50 one
-rw-rw-rw-   1 gcarmich gcarmich    4 Dec  8 10:39 two
 
Regards,
 
Grant
 
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On Wed, 8 Dec 2004, Grant Carmichael <grant@evanced.net>
wrote:
>   
> With a non root user, ssh will authenticate them, but then the rsync
> process dies.
...   
> My config file looks like:
>   
> uid = nobody  
> gid = nobody  
> use chroot = no  
> max connections = 5
> syslog facility = local5
> pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid/
> log file = /etc/rsync.log
Can a non-root user write to the paths that you specified for the pid
and log files?  Prolly not.  That's why rsync dies so quickly.

Create a rsyncd.conf file in your home directory that uses paths that
you can write to.  Also - since the specified uid and gid directives
will not work for a non-root user, leave those out.

    John