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Hi! |
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On Sat, 06 Nov 2004, Tobias Klausmann wrote: |
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> The problem is this: rsyncd logs various stuff after chrooting |
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> (for example the "wrote X read Y total size Z" line. |
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> Unfortunately, at this point /etc/localtime is inaccesible, |
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> resulting in UTC times being used. Other log lines (most notably |
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> the per -session "rsync on gentoo-portage from NAME (IP)" are |
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> written *outside* the chroot(), resulting in localized times. |
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> At first I thought this might be fixed by using syslog logging, |
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> but as the syslog call is used (i.e. not syslog-over-UDP) , the |
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> problem remains. |
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> So I thought, I'd deactivate chroot()ing in order to narrow down |
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> the problem. And bing: using use chroot=false "fixes" the |
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> timestamps. |
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> Loging with broken timestamps is damn near unusable, so what |
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> should we do about it? I've written to the rsync maintainers (via |
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> their mailing list) but got no feedback whatsoever :-( |
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After finally devoting some time to thinking about it, I have a |
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solution: just add an appropriate etc/localtime to your rsync |
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tree (where the chroot happens). You have to do a little more |
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stuff, though, otherwise people will get that file/dir when |
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they sync. Hence: |
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- Change your syncing job to exclude your timezone file. In my |
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case, it now reads: |
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rsync -rlptDvz --exclude /etc --delete \ |
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rsync://rsync1.us.gentoo.org/gentoo-portage/ /var/rsync/gentoo/ |
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Note the "--exclude /etc" part. Excludes are always relative |
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the published tree. |
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This prevents your half-hour sync from nuking your localtime |
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file. |
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- Change your rsyncd.conf to exclude the same tree (People out |
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there probably don't care much about it :) |
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My config looks like this: |
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motd file = /etc/rsync/rsyncd.motd |
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log file = /var/log/rsync.log |
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pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid |
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timeout = 150 |
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uid=nobody |
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gid=nogroup |
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[gentoo-x86-portage] |
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path = /var/rsync/gentoo |
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comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree (deprecated) |
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use chroot = true |
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exclude = /etc |
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[gentoo-portage] |
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path = /var/rsync/gentoo |
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comment = Gentoo Linux Portage tree |
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use chroot = true |
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exclude = /etc |
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Note the two exclude= lines. Again, those includes are relative |
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to the specified path. |
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- Restart your rsync daemon (in case you don't use inetd |
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- Now copy your /etc/localtime to your tree, in my case that's |
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/var/rsync/gentoo/etc/localtime |
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Voilá! Correct timestamps and chroot() working as expected. |
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Hope this helps people who've had the same trouble as I did. |
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Regards, |
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Tobias (rsync5.de) |
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PS: When will gentoo-x86-portage be phased out for good? |
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export DISPLAY=vt100 |
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