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Creating and using a /.rsync/exclude
Hello all,
Everyone has been awesome assisting with my rsync script... Now I want to clean it up. I think the best way for me to exclude many files might be to use a rsync exclude file.

So in my script I add
Quote:
--exclude-from=<path to file>
So now then, here is my .rsync/exclude...

Quote:
/home/<username>/Music/***
/home/<username>/.vmware
/home/<username>/vmware
/home/<username>/Virtual_Machines/***
So what is happening is the directories in the "exclude" file are still copying over so here are my questions...

1: Is the exclude file correct?
2: If not why?
3: If so, is the script entry right?
4: If not why?

Thank you for your help.
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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)