problems with rsync

[unsichtbare]

When I run rsync I get:

rsync: opendir "/var/www/web5/user/web5_rsts/Maildir" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: opendir "/var/www/web5/user/web5_rsts/.spamassassin" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: opendir "/var/www/web5/user/web5_test/Maildir" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: opendir "/var/www/web5/user/web5_test/.spamassassin" failed: Permission denied (13)

Although it does successfully copy some files.

Also, when I try to automate the rsync process following the tutorial, it still asks for a password, then fails.

root@mirrior1:~# rsync -avz --delete --exclude=**/stats --exclude=**/error --exclude=**/files/pictures -e "ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key" someuser@clients1.myserver.com:/var/www/ /var/www/
someuser@clients1.myserver.com's password:
bash: /home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync: /bin/shcase: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: remote command could not be run (code 126) at io.c(454) [receiver=2.6.9]

Yes I actually created a user account "someuser", following the tutorial.

Any suggestions?

One other thing, when I ran:

ssh-keygen -t dsa -b 2048 -f /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key

as root, it told me that the key needed to be 1024 bits so I changed 2048 to 1024 and re-ran it.

-J

[till]

Please run the rsync command as root user, otherwise the process does not has the permissions to copy the files.

[unsichtbare]

login as: root
root@XX.YY.ZZ.103's password:
Last login: Mon Nov 24 08:13:47 2008 from
Linux mirrior1.myserver.com 2.6.20-15-server #2 SMP Sun Apr 15 07:41:34 UTC 2007 i686

The programs included with the Ubuntu system are free software;
the exact distribution terms for each program are described in the
individual files in /usr/share/doc/*/copyright.

Ubuntu comes with ABSOLUTELY NO WARRANTY, to the extent permitted by
applicable law.
root@mirrior1:~# rsync -avz --delete --exclude=**/stats --exclude=**/error --exclude=**/files/pictures -e "ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key" someuser@clients1.myserver.com:/var/www/ /var/www/
someuser@clients1.myserver.com's password:
bash: /home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync: /bin/shcase: bad interpreter: No such file or directory
rsync: connection unexpectedly closed (0 bytes received so far) [receiver]
rsync error: remote command could not be run (code 126) at io.c(454) [receiver=2.6.9]
root@mirrior1:~#


I was careful to run commands either as "someuser" or root as specified in the tutorial.

-J

[till]

Yes, but if someuser has not the permissions to read files, it can not be synced :)

[falko]

What's in /home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync?

[unsichtbare]

/home/someuser/rsync/checkrsync
#!/bin/shcase "$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" in *\&*) echo "Rejected" ;; *\(*) echo "Rejected" ;; *\{*) echo "Rejected" ;; *\;*) echo "Rejected" ;; *\<*) echo "Rejected" ;; *\`*) echo "Rejected" ;; rsync\ --server*) $SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND ;; *) echo "Rejected" ;;esac
~



-J

[falko]

The problem is that you have everything in one line. It must look like this instead:

#!/bin/sh

case "$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND" in
*\&*)
echo "Rejected"
;;
*\(*)
echo "Rejected"
;;
*\{*)
echo "Rejected"
;;
*\;*)
echo "Rejected"
;;
*\<*)
echo "Rejected"
;;
*\`*)
echo "Rejected"
;;
rsync\ --server*)
$SSH_ORIGINAL_COMMAND
;;
*)
echo "Rejected"
;;
esac

[andrercmeira]

I use rsync in my server, vmail copy normaly, but www not copy,

i follow http://www.howtoforge.com/mirroring_with_rsync,

its work for vmail, my reverse dns files, but not for /var/www

root@johan:/var/vmail# rsync -avzu --delete --exclude=*/tmp/ --exclude=.bash_history -e "ssh -i /root/rsync/mirror-rsync-key" sincronismo@servidor1.izaz.com.br:/var/www/ /var/www/
receiving incremental file list
rsync: opendir "/var/www/clients/client1/web1/cgi-bin" failed: Permission denied (13)
IO error encountered -- skipping file deletion
rsync: opendir "/var/www/clients/client1/web1/ssl" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: opendir "/var/www/clients/client1/web1/web" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: opendir "/var/www/clients/client2/web2" failed: Permission denied (13)
rsync: opendir "/var/www/clients/client2/web3" failed: Permission denied (13)

sent 225 bytes received 94091 bytes 188632.00 bytes/sec
total size is 49697052 speedup is 526.92
rsync error: some files/attrs were not transferred (see previous errors) (code 23) at main.c(1526) [generator=3.0.7]

[falko]

There seems to be a permissions problem. Can you, for example, post the output of ls -la /var/www/clients/client1/web1/cgi-bin/?

BTW, you use ISPConfig 3, not 2, right? Because this is the ISPConfig 2 forum... ;)

[Ripeed]

Hi, I have the same problem. I dont want to use root for rsync but I dont know how get read rights to some user.

This is my output


root@sue:~# ls -la /var/www/clients/client1/web1/cgi-bin/
total 8
drwxr-x--x 2 web1 client0 4096 Oct 6 10:07 .
drwxr-x--x 6 web1 client1 4096 Oct 10 10:03 ..

[falko]

If you use web1 as the rsync user or any user that belongs to the client0 group, everything should be fine. I don't recommend to change permissions of your web folders as this might result in unpredictable behaviour.

[Ripeed]

Thanks but, I want to sync by some user from WWW directory. If I add new web I dont want adding new backup process. Can you help me with this? Now I can do that by root user. I think its not good:)

[falko]

But that's the best solution if you want to sync directories that are owned by different users/groups.