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Howto: Rsync Server for Gentoo Linux

This is a small howto for shareing files over rsync.

If you want to use this solution you need the following howto(s) finished:

Basesystem

Required software

The required software has to be installed with the following command(s):

emerge net-misc/rsync

Changes in /etc/rsyncd.conf

File permissions:
Owner: root
Group: root
Permissions: -rw-r--r--

Click here for a download of the complete file: /etc/rsyncd.conf

Changed on 24.09.09
Issued by olli
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This serves /gtc/stable and test read only. You can download it for example with "rsync -av rsync://host/thinclient /target"
With the filter Option are some includes and excludes set.

[thinclient]
	path = /gtc/stable
	comment = Stable Thinclient
	read only = yes
	uid = 0
	gid = 0
	numeric ids = yes
	transfer logging = yes
        auth users = gtc:ro
        secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
	filter = - /_additionalsw - /etc/thinclient/thinclient.conf.local - /etc/thinclient/profiles/* - /etc/thinclient/user-profiles/* - /proc/ - /tmp/ - /home/ - /root/ - /var/tmp/portage/ - /sys - /_gtcroot - /gtcdvd
#        filter = + /etc/thinclient/global-profile/start.sh + /etc/thinclient/global-profile/etc - /_additionalsw - /etc/thinclient/thinclient.conf.local - /etc/thinclient/profiles/* - /etc/thinclient/global-profile/* - /etc/thinclient/user-profiles/* - /proc/ - /tmp/ - /home/ - /root/ - /var/tmp/portage/ - /sys - /_gtcroot - /gtcdvd

[thinclient-test]
        path = /gtc/test
        comment = Stable Thinclient
        read only = yes
        uid = 0
        gid = 0
	numeric ids = yes
	transfer logging = yes
	auth users = gtc:ro
	secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
	filter = - /_additionalsw - /etc/thinclient/thinclient.conf.local - /etc/thinclient/profiles/* - /etc/thinclient/user-profiles/* - /proc/ - /tmp/ - /home/ - /root/ - /var/tmp/portage/ - /sys - /_gtcroot - /gtcdvd
#        filter = + /etc/thinclient/global-profile/start.sh + /etc/thinclient/global-profile/etc - /_additionalsw - /etc/thinclient/thinclient.conf.local - /etc/thinclient/profiles/* - /etc/thinclient/global-profile/* - /etc/thinclient/user-profiles/* - /proc/ - /tmp/ - /home/ - /root/ - /var/tmp/portage/ - /sys - /_gtcroot - /gtcdvd

Setting up services

For starting the new service after system reboot you should add it to a runlevel with the following command(s):

rc-update add rsyncd

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