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Hello, I am trying to run rsync under my own userid on a high-numbered port. The problem is that, when I use the --daemon option, I get an error saying that a chroot() call failed. My config file does *not* have any chroot call in it. How can I avoid a chroot() invocation when running as a normal non-root user? Thanks in advance for any advice! -- Daniel Ortmann, LSI Logic, 3425 40th Av NW,

Hi all, I have a problem synching a directory that as symbolic links. The behavior is: If a symlink is relative (like ../../file) the link is copied correctly If a symlink is absolute (like /root/document) the link is copied like (root/document) whithout the first slash. By the way some link are not usable. I use rsync 2.5.5 protocol 26 and the command is rsync -varlRHpogDtxP .

I'm 99% sure there is a bug in rsync when running in daemon mode on a 'remote' server. The bug is that when trying to rsync a sym-link, the daemon 'leg' of the code strips off the leading path separator (for linux, this would be a '/'). I have produced a 'fixed' version of the code and we have been using it for at least 6 months. We've also used the