[Server-devel] RFH - xs-rsync on F9 fails with an odd error

[Martin Langhoff]

More fun to be had debugging! Rsync and xinetd - those two old friends
- are not playing ball, and there error is not something I've ever
seen before.

So if you have an F9 machine and want to debug something (and
hopefully help craft a patch).

To start, add a repo to your F9 box pointing to
http://fedora.laptop.org/xs/testing/olpc/7/i386 - keep it disabled by
default - I don't want a yum update to switch your desktop machine
into a school server. Not yet at least.

Notes:
 - that repo contains a single dangerous package. Do NOT dare install
xs-config - it will reconfigure your machine in unexpected ways.
Everything else is pretty sane.
 - even if harmless, the packages here will create a directory called
/library - assuming you don't have a /library dir you use, all is
safe...

1 - From that repo, install xs-rsync, most dependencies are harmless,
(see cleanup notes later).

2 - xs-rsync by default binds to an odd address, edit the bind address
in /etc/xinet.d/xs-rsync so that it listens on localhost

3 - ah, magic moment: run `rsync rsync://localhost/` - normally, it
should list one directory: 'builds' (this is from
/library/xs-rsync/pub feel free to put something there).

On my system, it errors out, and /var/log/messages talks about
getpeeraddr errors, which I've never seen before. Nor has google :-/

4 - ???

5 - patch!

Cleanup:

 - You will probably want to remove xinetd, incron, and usbmount if
you are not otherwise using them.

 - rm /library if there is no content of yours there.

cheers,



m
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