Bug 27277 – rsyncd init script does not works

• Status: RESOLVED FIXED
• Product: Gentoo Linux

[Description Cyril Pawelko 2003-08-25 02:35:45 UTC]

/etc/init.d/rsyncd start works well
/etc/init.d/rsyncd stop returns an error

buck /root# /etc/init.d/rsyncd stop
 * Stopping rsyncd...
cat: /var/run/rsyncd.pid: Aucun fichier ou r

[Comment 1 Cyril Pawelko 2003-08-25 02:35:45 UTC]

/etc/init.d/rsyncd start works well
/etc/init.d/rsyncd stop returns an error

buck /root# /etc/init.d/rsyncd stop
 * Stopping rsyncd...
cat: /var/run/rsyncd.pid: Aucun fichier ou répertoire de ce type
kill: usage: kill [-s sigspec | -n signum | -sigspec] [pid | job]... or kill -l
[sigspec]                              [ !! ]

the init script does a 'kill `cat /var/run/rsyncd.pid`' to stop the rsync
deamon, but the pid file isn't created when the deamon starts.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1. Configure rsyncd (/etc/rsync and /etc/conf.d/rsynd)
2. Start rsyncd (/etc/init.d/rsyncd start)
3. Try to stop rsyncd (/etc/init.d/rsyncd stop)

Actual Results:  
kill syntax error


Expected Results:  
rsync daemon should be correctly stopped.


I tried this on 2 x86 computers, same error.
Version net-misc/rsync-2.5.6-r2

[Comment 2 Cyril Pawelko 2003-08-25 03:04:43 UTC]

I tried to use start-stop-deamon whith --make-pidfile option, but it doesn't works.
I finally found that 
"pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid"
must be added to /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf
With this, rsyncd init script can stop rsync daemon.
I think a /etc/rsync/rsyncd.conf should be installed by the ebuild

[Comment 3 Cyril Pawelko 2003-08-25 03:07:53 UTC]

Created attachment 16579 [details]
rsyncd.conf file with necessary information

this is the /etc/rsyncd/rsyncd.conf file with the needed line for
/etc/init.d/rsyncd script to work.

[Comment 4 SpanKY 2003-08-25 20:46:15 UTC]

-r3 will install the default rsyncd.conf file, thanks for the sample one