Linux Server Security, Second Edition

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And that is most of what you need to know to set up both anonymous and authenti-

cated rsync services. See the rsync(8) and rsyncd.conf(5) manpages for full lists of

command-line and configuration-file options, including a couple I haven’t covered

here that can be used to customize log messages.

Using rsync to connect to an rsync server

Lest I forget, I haven’t yet shown how to connect to an rsync server as a client. This is

a simple matter of syntax: when specifying the remote host, use a double colon

rather than a single colon, and use a path relative to the desired module, not an abso-

lute path.

For example, to revisit the scenario in Example 11-11 in which your client system is

called near and the remote system is called far, suppose you wish to retrieve the file

newstuff.tgz and that far is running rsync in daemon mode. Suppose further that you

can’t remember the name of the module on far in which new files are stored. First,

you can query far for a list of its available modules, as shown in Example 11-15.

Not coincidentally, these are the same modules we set up in Examples

11-12 and 11-13, and as I predicted in the previous section, the mod-

ule audiofreakz is omitted.

Aha, the directory you need is named public. Assuming you’re right, the command ...