Problems using rsync in Leopard with SSH... seeking solution/alternative
Precursor: ...it may sound like I'm at least somewhat comfortable with Unix, but I'm far from it. Layman's terms would be greatly appreciated
Okay, so here's the situation. I created a website using iWeb, and I'm not using a .Mac account (you can sync website in one click if you do). Being without .Mac, this is the process I've been following to upload to my site:
Make change to website
Export to a local folder
Upload folder to a webhost via FTP client (GUI)
This was okay at the beginning, but it started to get really old, really fast when it started taking FOREVER to upload files. iWeb makes things difficult because each time you make a change, you overwrite ALL of the folders, thus I can't upload via FTP filtering by date modified.
So I did a little searching and found that you could use something called rsync. Using SSH, this program would upload just CHANGED files to my web server. For the past couple days, I've scurried around trying to determine if my webhost offered SSH, and long story short, I found somebody who's allowing me to use their web space and domain to see if this whole rsync thing works, etc.
So... I got rsync compiled and running (works locally syncing folder to folder), but whenever I try syncing over SSH, it just hangs until I force kill it using ctrl-c. It looks like it's initially working, as I have to enter my password (and if the wrong one's entered, it denies me access immediately). SSH itself doesn't seem to be the problem, as I can log into the server using SSH without a problem.
Here's the syntax I'm using:
I don't know if I'm missing syntax, have the wrong syntax, simply can't do this as of right now with Leopard, didn't compile rsync correctly, etc.
I'm running Mac OS X Leopard on a MacBook Pro (Intel 2.2 GHz, 2GB RAM) so you know. I'm sure much more info is needed to accurately answer this question, so just let me know what info you need. Any help would be greatly appreciated!!!
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LEARN ABOUT LINUX
rsync_selinux
rsync_selinux(8) rsync Selinux Policy documentation rsync_selinux(8)NAME
rsync_selinux - Security Enhanced Linux Policy for the rsync daemon
DESCRIPTION
Security-Enhanced Linux secures the rsync server via flexible mandatory access control.
FILE_CONTEXTS
SELinux requires files to have an extended attribute to define the file type. Policy governs the access daemons have to these files. If
you want to share files using the rsync daemon, you must label the files and directories public_content_t. So if you created a special
directory /var/rsync, you would need to label the directory with the chcon tool.
chcon -t public_content_t /var/rsync
To make this change permanent (survive a relabel), use the semanage command to add the change to file context configuration:
semanage fcontext -a -t public_content_t "/var/rsync(/.*)?"
This command adds the following entry to /etc/selinux/POLICYTYPE/contexts/files/file_contexts.local:
/var/rsync(/.*)? system_u:object_r:publix_content_t:s0
Run the restorecon command to apply the changes:
restorecon -R -v /var/rsync/
SHARING FILES
If you want to share files with multiple domains (Apache, FTP, rsync, Samba), you can set a file context of public_content_t and pub-
lic_content_rw_t. These context allow any of the above domains to read the content. If you want a particular domain to write to the pub-
lic_content_rw_t domain, you must set the appropriate boolean. allow_DOMAIN_anon_write. So for rsync you would execute:
setsebool -P allow_rsync_anon_write=1
BOOLEANS
system-config-selinux is a GUI tool available to customize SELinux policy settings.
AUTHOR
This manual page was written by Dan Walsh <dwalsh@redhat.com>.
SEE ALSO selinux(8), rsync(1), chcon(1), setsebool(8), semanage(8)dwalsh@redhat.com 17 Jan 2005 rsync_selinux(8)
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