How come every time I try to start Rsync as a daemon I get a 'bind failed on port 873' in the log file?

Thanks,
-Chuck

Is this on your empeg? If not, try netstat -a -t -p | grep 873 as root to see which process has the port open.

Otherwise, you might need to set up your /etc/hosts file correctly -- it's likely that rsync is attempting to look up the wrong host name.

Yep, it's on my empeg. I'm trying to sync two of them with Rsync.

The hosts file contains:

127.0.0.1 localhost
192.168.0.6 empeg1 empeg1.mydomain.com (none)
192.168.0.7 empeg2 empeg2.mydomain.com (none)

I do a 'hostname -F hosts' on empeg1, then a 'rsync --daemon' on empeg1, which is when I get the bind failed. Did I miss a step or do I have something configured wrong?

Maybe you have installed (x)inetd on your Empeg and have this listening to the rsync port.

BTW, is there a working, preferably lightweight inetd for the Empeg, anyone?

Nope, it's a fairly bare bones empeg except for hijack, netcat, rsync and hostname. Thanks for the suggestion though. I'm still working on trying to figure it out, but it's getting a bit frustrating.

Try a different port number, perhaps?

Using the raw IP address, right?

Maybe you already ran rsync? I can't remember whether it exits when you restart the player.

I've tried many a different port number without any luck. I've finally given up and use WS_FTP Synch to synch the Empegs with local directories on my Windows box.

I couldn't tell you exactly right now, but I am sure I tried the raw IP address without any luck. Is that a no-no with rsync?

At the moment I'm using a FTP sync util with the Hi-Jack FTP server to keep the Empegs sync. Many thanks for your FTP server.

I had run it multiple times, but there was "usually" an exit message in the rsync log. I might have to give this another look-see.

I was just checking for the obvious.. IF not using a raw ip address, then it probably wouldn't have a hope of working, since the Empeg is probably not set up to do name translation (no name server configured).

So, yes, use a raw ip address rather than a hostname.

Cheers

Yeah, that's a fair point -- I don't think that my rsync instructions require a nameserver, but my empeg is configured to use one, so I would probably not have noticed.

BTW, is there a working, preferably lightweight inetd for the Empeg, anyone?

There might be, but you might find that tcpserver does what you need. In some ways, it's better than inetd, anyway.