What do you want to rsync from where to where? It is really easy to set up - in fact I just got done writing an internal wiki page on how to do a simple setup. The following is what I use for my kickstart servers so the main server can rsync itself out to slave servers. This sets up /var/www/html/ks on the slave server as an rsync share that the master can write to /etc/rsyncd.secrets ---snip--- kickstart:user ---snip--- This file must be set to permissions 0600 and the main config file /etc/rsyncd.conf Here we use a subdirectory of the main default Apache directory which is /var/www/html ---snip--- # Set this if you want to stop rsync daemon with rc.d scripts pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid log file = /var/log/rsyncd.log # Edit this file before running rsync daemon!! uid = root gid = root #use chroot = no max connections = 3 #syslog facility = local5 [ks] path = /var/www/html/ks comment = Kickstart read only = no auth users = kickstart hosts allow = 192.168.0.9 secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets ---snip--- Note in the hosts allow above we put the IP address of the main kickstart server. /etc/xinetd.d/rsync Just update this file and change disable from yes to no service rsync { disable = no socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/bin/rsync server_args = --daemon log_on_failure += USERID } Now restart xinetd (and ensure it is turned on by default) Then on the main server I run a script like this : ---snip--- export SLAVES="192.168.0.177" export USER=kickstart export RSYNC_PASSWORD=user for slave in $SLAVES do ping -c 3 -w 3 $slave > /dev/null 2>&1 if [ $? -eq 0 ] then rsync -avSHP --delete --exclude "local*" --exclude "isos" /data/ks/ rsync://${slave}/ks/ fi done -- “Don't eat anything you've ever seen advertised on TV” - Michael Pollan, author of "In Defense of Food" _______________________________________________ CentOS mailing list CentOS@xxxxxxxxxx http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos