Hi,

I am having problems getting stunnel to tunnel rsync connections when stunnel is called from xinetd. I can get it to work fine when stunnel is run as a daemon, but when I try rsyncing from the client via xinetd, rsync complains:

[root@lambeth ~]# rsync -av --port 2873 192.168.10.130::sanbackup . rsync: server sent "2011.06.06 06:13:56 LOG7[18335:3086816976]: Snagged 64 random bytes from /dev/urandom" rather than greeting rsync error: error starting client-server protocol (code 5) at main.c(1296) [receiver=2.6.8] [root@lambeth ~]#

It appears that rsync on the client is getting the output of /dev/urandom, and the connection is abandoned. Any suggestions on how to avoid this?

stunnel.conf (client):

client = yes pid = /var/run/stunnel.pid connect = 192.168.10.240:2873 debug = 7 output = /var/log/stunnel.log accept = 2873 cert = /etc/stunnel/lambeth.pem

xinetd config on client for rsync [ssync]

service ssync { disable = no port = 2873 socket_type = stream wait = no user = root server = /usr/sbin/stunnel server_args = /etc/stunnel/stunnel-rsync-client.conf log_on_success += USERID log_on_failure += USERID }

Any help welcomed!

Regards,

-Cam