Description of problem: rsync cannot be started via socket. This is already tracked in Fedora bug 1047236. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): How reproducible: always Steps to Reproduce: 1. disable rsyncd.service and start rsyncd.socket 2. execute rsync command 3. Actual results: connection refused Expected results: rsync works
broken package: rsync-3.0.9-15.el7
Looks like we basically need the rsyncd@.service file: diff --git a/rsyncd@.service b/rsyncd@.service new file mode 100644 index 0000000..89f9621 --- /dev/null +++ b/rsyncd@.service @@ -0,0 +1,8 @@ +[Unit] +Description=fast remote file copy program daemon +ConditionPathExists=/etc/rsyncd.conf + +[Service] +EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/rsyncd +ExecStart=/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --no-detach "$OPTIONS" +StandardInput=socket
We have put this file in as a work around while waiting for this official fix: $ cat /etc/systemd/system/rsyncd\@.service [Unit] Description=fast remote file copy program daemon ConditionPathExists=/etc/rsyncd.conf [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/rsyncd ExecStart=/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --no-detach "$OPTIONS" StandardInput=socket We noticed that the whole system started crawling to a halt after a period of time - in troubleshooting there are a lot of failed rsync processes piling up $ systemctl rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19886.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19887.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19888.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19889.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19898.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon 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loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19982.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19983.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19984.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon rsyncd.0.1:873-10.1.1.1:19985.service loaded failed failed fast remote file copy program daemon This is caused by this particular host not being on the "hosts allow = " line in /etc/rsyncd.conf causing rsync to exit with a nonzero status - which systemd then marks as failed. The fix is to either use the systemd service file to acknowledge or ignore the return status code Acknowledge - use "SuccessExitStatus" - however I'm not sure of the return codes that are fine to use as successful exits So I have ignored it completely which you do by prefixing the command for ExecStart with a hyphen. ExecStart=-/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --no-detach "$OPTIONS" If you are going to start including this file, might want to make sure it does not cause issues with the exit codes of rsync.
postponing to 7.2
*** Bug 1180317 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Hi, I can confirm that rsyncd\@.service suggested by Aaron works. Exactly I used this: [Unit] Description=fast remote file copy program daemon ConditionPathExists=/etc/rsyncd.conf [Service] EnvironmentFile=/etc/sysconfig/rsyncd ExecStart=-/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --no-detach "$OPTIONS" StandardInput=socket [Install] WantedBy=multi-user.target It is copy of rsyncd.service + StandardInput=socket and '-' before /usr/bin/rsync.
Since the problem described in this bug report should be resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a resolution of ERRATA. For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated files, follow the link below. If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report. https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2015-2120.html