Starting the Rsync Daemon (rsyncd) on boot

[Clint Tinsley]

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Peter Garrett" <peter.garrett at optusnet.com.au>
> To: ubuntu-users at lists.ubuntu.com
> Subject: Re: Starting the Rsync Daemon (rsyncd) on boot
> Date: Wed, 6 Dec 2006 11:24:28 +1100
> 
> 
> On Tue, 05 Dec 2006 16:26:12 -0700
> "Clint Tinsley" <clintin at linuxmail.org> wrote:
> 
> > rsync --daemon
> >
> > I am little fuzzy on configuring services in Ubuntu.
> >
> > The rsyncd sevice is nowhere to be found in the Administration 
> > tools as far as I can tell and I don't know how to add it to the 
> > applet, if I can.
> >
> > I have tried starting it on boot with the appropriate entries in 
> > both rc.local and inetd.conf.  I just realized I spelled it wrong 
> > in rc.local, maybe that will work.  Anyway, I would to find some 
> > good information on configuring and starting services such as 
> > rsycnd in Ubuntu.  I did find the script for starting rsync and 
> > like I said, it does work as I can start it from a terminal 
> > session without any problems or errors with the command above and 
> > it works great.
> >
> > Would appreciate any light that could be shed on this.  I even 
> > did a search on the wiki but pretty much came up empty handed.
> 
> This was discussed some months ago on the list. You might find
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-June/082994.html
> 
> useful. The thread started with
> 
> https://lists.ubuntu.com/archives/ubuntu-users/2006-June/082923.html
> 
> 
> Peter

Thanks for the links.  My rc.local entry did work after correcting my spelling of daemon. I'll have to look at these other solutions.  Also had to put in a chown statement to maintain the correct permissions on the directories after a reboot.  rsync needs the nobody ownership.  All works very nicely.

Thanks again.

Clint