rsync - Sep 2005 - How to do server-side logging with rsync running through a SSH tunnel?

Hello!

 I am using rsync to synchronize files between a master server and 
multiple clients
that share a SSH account. I am struggling right now to make the server 
log what
files were transferred, and when the synchronization happens.

 My setup follows.

 The clients log to an ssh account configured to run a script as the 
login shell:

 (in ~/.ssh/authorized keys)
 command="/home/igor/rsync_shell"

 The script checks if the command is valid (and also if it points inside 
somewhere allowed)
and at its end issues:

 rsync --config=/home/igor/rsyncd.conf --daemon --server --sender -vr . 
./somefolder/somewhere

 Unfortunately, from what I saw in an old message
(http://www.mail-archive.com/rsync@lists.samba.org/msg04728.html)
in the archive, "rsync --daemon and ssh do not currently work together 
at all".

 The script works, but the config file seems to be ignored: there is a 
log file definition inside it
and no logging takes place when I run the rsync command in the clients 
(the process works
and the files are properly synchronized, though).

 What I am missing? Is there any other way (besides a config file) to 
make the server log
transfers to a file? If the answer is yes, please tell me...

Thanks for you patience,
 Igor.

On Wed, Sep 14, 2005 at 04:22:01PM -0300, Igor Hjelmstrom Vinhas Ribeiro
wrote:
> rsync --config=/home/igor/rsyncd.conf --daemon --server --sender -vr . 
> ./somefolder/somewhere
A modern rsync would reject that command-line as invalid (since --sender
and -r aren't daemon options, and paths aren't sent to a daemon on the
command-line -- such client-to-server items are sent to the daemon via
the internal protocol).

I gave a basic answer to this question of server-side logging using a
daemon-over-ssh setup back on August 24th (it's pretty terse, though):

    http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2005-August/013359.html

The important bit is to make sure that the client command is using
daemon-style host syntax (it sounds like you're not if your rsync_shell
script is checking path names -- there's no need to check paths with
daemon mode since the modules set their own path, nor is it possible
without parsing the start of the incoming data).

Also, make sure you're using a modern enough rsync that supports
daemon-mode over ssh (it was added in 2.5.6) and make sure that you're
sending rsync a valid daemon command-line.

..wayne..