rsync - Aug 2009 - rsyncd.conf chroot yes problem with symlink-ing

Hy there,

 My name is Alex Vladulescu, and i found this very
interesting tool for backup files and folders over remote network
servers.

 For the past four days i have been reading the FAQ on the site,
google-ing the web for some answers on my local problem, but i am very
stuck, nothing seems to answer my question so far.

 My issue consists on
having a rsyncd.conf on a master server on which i use regular cron jobs to
update slaves with directory path and content, and all of this work well
but except the symlinks.

 This is the rsyncd.conf on the master :

uid root
gid = root
use chroot = yes
max verbosity = 1
lock file = 1
read only
= false
write only = false
list = true

port = 873
address = 10.99.1.1
max
connections = 0
munge symlinks = false

log file /etc/scripts/rsync/rsync.log

hosts allow = 10.99.1.0/30
ignore errors false
ignore nonreadable = false
transfer logging = yes
timeout 600

[home]
path = /home/

[mail]
path = /etc/virtual/

 ... and on the
slave the rsync command looks like :

 rsync -vrulpHEtzhi4ogk -L
--copy-links rsync://root at 10.99.1.1::/home /home/

 and the symlink message
:

root at ph:/# rsync -vrulpHEtzhi4ogk -L --copy-links --del
rsync://root at 10.99.1.1::/home /home/
receiving incremental file
list
symlink has no referent: "/webmaster/domains/csteam.ro" (in
home)

sent 338 bytes received 94.71K bytes 63.36K bytes/sec
total size is
5.54M speedup is 58.32
rsync error: some files could not be transferred
(code 23) at main.c(1524) [generator=3.0.3]

 Ok, so far the googlein' got
me this : http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2009-July/023532.html but it
does't helps me, because the issue was that he didn't use in the config
"use chroot = yes", which is not my case as you can see, and i have
been
trying all kind of params on the slaves command like : --links
--copy-unsafe-links, given the perm options.. ?i have no clue.

 Please
enlight me. Tnks in advance.

 Best regardes,

 Vladulescu Alexandru
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On Fri 14 Aug 2009, alex.vladulescu at csteam.ro wrote:
> 
>  Ok, so far the googlein' got
> me this : http://lists.samba.org/archive/rsync/2009-July/023532.html but it
> does't helps me, because the issue was that he didn't use in the
config
> "use chroot = yes", which is not my case as you can see, and i
have been

So it look like this :

ls -l /home/webmaster/domains/csteam.ro

lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 31 2009-07-28 21:47
/home/webmaster/domains/csteam.ro -> /home/csteam/domains/csteam.ro/

and 

panel:/home# ls -l /home/webmaster/domains/csteam.ro/

total 20
drwx------ 2 csteam csteam 4096 2009-08-14 00:10 logs
drwxr-xr-x 2 csteam csteam 4096 2009-07-26 10:36 private_html
drwx--x--x 3 csteam csteam 4096 2009-07-26 10:36 public_ftp
drwxr-xr-x 3 csteam csteam 4096 2009-08-03 12:11 public_html
drwxr-xr-x 2 root   root   4096 2009-08-04 00:10 stats



On Fri, 14 Aug 2009 11:52:16 +0200, Paul Slootman <paul+rsync at
wurtel.net>
wrote:
> On Fri 14 Aug 2009, alex.vladulescu at csteam.ro wrote:
> 
>> root at ph:~# rsync -vrulLpHEtzhi4og --copy-unsafe-links --del
>> rsync://root at 10.99.1.1:/home/ /home
>> receiving incremental file list
>> symlink has no referent: "/webmaster/domains/csteam.ro" (in
home)
> 
> So what does that symlink look like on the source? 10.99.1.1
> ls -l /home/webmaster/domains/csteam.ro
> 
> 
> Paul