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jthompson
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 Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject: rsyncd not logging connections? & mailing of log files |
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I have a few machines that are using rsync to synchronize some data with one main server. However, when these machines run their rsync command from a cron job, the rsyncd (daemon) on the server does not log the connections. I'm trying to figure out a way that I can check to see whether these machines are updating every night, but checking 25 dead.letter files is annoying.
Here is my rsyncd.conf on the server
| Code: | # /etc/rsyncd.conf
# $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo-x86/net-misc/rsync/files/rsyncd.conf,v 1.6 2005/03/24 03:12:45 vapier Exp $
# Minimal configuration file for rsync daemon
# See rsync(1) and rsyncd.conf(5) man pages for help
# This line is required by the /etc/init.d/rsyncd script
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
uid=nobody
gid=nobody
use chroot = yes
read only = yes
#limit access to private LAN's
hosts deny=*
hosts allow=192.168.xxx.0/255.255.255.0 192.192.xxx.0/255.255.255.0
max connections = 30
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
motd file = /etc/rsync/rsyncd.motd
#This will give you a separate log file
log file = /var/log/rsync.log
#This will log every file transferred - up to 85,000+ per user, per sync
#transfer logging = yes
log format = %t %a %m %f %b
syslog facility = local3
timeout = 300
[gentoo-portage]
#modern versions of portage use this entry
path = /usr/portage
comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree mirror
exclude = distfiles/
[ben-data]
path = /home/ben.data
comment = QM account BEN.DATA
auth users = ben.data
exclude = .ssh/ .bash_history .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc .keychain/ .lesshst .tcsh.config
[qmsys]
path = /usr/qmsys
comment = QM database system
auth users = qmsys
exclude = .ssh/ .bash_history .bash_logout .bash_profile .bashrc .keychain/ .lesshst .tcsh.config
# Simple example for enabling your own local rsync server
#[gentoo-portage]
# path = /usr/portage
# comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree
# exclude = /distfiles /packages |
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think4urs11
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:31 pm Post subject: |
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hmm nothing obvious
- did you try to restart the rsyncd already?
- what gives ls -la /var/log/rsync.log?
- anything logged in /var/log/messages?
about the dead.letters
- configure yours clients cronjobs to use a correct recipient address
- configure yours clients MTA (most probably ssmtp) to use a working mailserver
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jthompson
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 5:57 pm Post subject: |
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| Quote: | | - did you try to restart the rsyncd already? |
Yes
ls -la /var/log/messages
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-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 110701 Jun 13 10:18 /var/log/rsync.log |
Could it be that since normal users are rsyncing, that it can't write to this log file?
I believe all that gets logged into /var/log/messages are the ssh connections...
| Code: | Jun 8 01:15:01 server sshd[1310]: Accepted publickey for ben.data from xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx port xxxxx s$
Jun 8 01:15:01 server sshd(pam_unix)[1315]: session opened for user ben.data by (uid=0) |
but no rsync info.
The emerge syncs are getting logged into /var/log/rsync.log, but not the other rsync commands.
| Quote: | about the dead.letters
- configure yours clients cronjobs to use a correct recipient address
- configure yours clients MTA (most probably ssmtp) to use a working mailserver |
Are you suggesting that I configure cron to write somewhere else besides the dead.letters?
So you're saying use something like mutt to mail out the dead.letters? I was hoping I could get the commands to write to the one rsycnd.log on the server and just mail that to me.
Sorry I'm a bit new at this, I just learn as I go.
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think4urs11
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| Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2006 6:54 pm Post subject: |
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| jthompson wrote: | | Could it be that since normal users are rsyncing, that it can't write to this log file? |
not sure, i've only a anonymous rsync mirror here to test but that one logs as it should.
| Quote: | Are you suggesting that I configure cron to write somewhere else besides the dead.letters?
So you're saying use something like mutt to mail out the dead.letters? I was hoping I could get the commands to write to the one rsycnd.log on the server and just mail that to me. |
What i mean would be in easiest case (no auth needed on the mail server etc.)
inside your crontab
MAILTO=user@domain.org # the mail address the cron reports should be send to
inside your /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
mailhub=mail.domain.org # e.g. yours ISP mail server
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jthompson
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| Posted: Wed Jun 14, 2006 3:14 pm Post subject: |
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Ok so I'm going to try that and see if it works. The config files look like so:
| Code: | crontab -l
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - edit the master and reinstall.
# (crons.cron installed on Wed Jun 14 10:36:37 2006)
# (Cron version V5.0 -- $Id: crontab.c,v 1.12 2004/01/23 18:56:42 vixie Exp $)
MAILTO=yomama@gmail.com
#Mins Hours Days Months Day of the week
15 1 * * * /home/ben.data/sync-qm-bendata.sh |
| Code: | /etc/ssmtp/ssmtp.conf
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# /etc/ssmtp.conf -- a config file for sSMTP sendmail.
#
root=postmaster
mailhub=smtp.gmail.com:465
rewriteDomain=
FromLineOverride=YES
UseTLS=YES
AuthUser=yomama
AuthPass=yodaddy |
I am not sure of a way to test ssmtp to see it works, so I guess I'll have to wait until tonight.
The only reason that I can see that the rsync commands aren't logging is that those users don't have permission to write to /var/log/rsync.log.
So if I can get your idea to work, then I suppose 25 mails or so every morning isn't that bad of a deal.
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