[Csync2] Issue with the auto-backup feature. A bug?

[alex at gluu.org]

On 2016-05-02 11:00, Lars Ellenberg wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 29, 2016 at 07:05:30PM -0400, alex at gluu.org wrote:
>> Greetings.
>> 
>> I'm a novice user of csync2, and just have built my first test
>> cluster with it. However, I've encountered issue I haven't been able
>> to find solution for yet. I installed csync2 using this package:
>> http://oss.linbit.com/csync2/csync2-2.0.tar.gz I have quite a simple
>> cluster setup of 2 nodes which try to replicate 1 directory with 1
>> file in it. Here is a sample config file:
> 
> Most likely, this is again inetd mixing stderr of csync2 into stdout,
> thereby "corrupting" the csync2 protocol.
> 
> add "-l" to the inetd invocation.
> as in
> /etc/inetd.conf:
> -csync2          stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/csync2 
> csync2 -i
> +csync2          stream  tcp     nowait  root    /usr/sbin/csync2 
> csync2 -i -l
> 
> 
> or add up to two -v (the third -v will break protocol again,
> when run from inetd, see below).
> 
> currently csync2 defaults to using syslog when run from inetd
> when "-v" is present only.
> 
> I'll try to push a workaround for defaulting to syslog when run from 
> inetd,
> disregarding the debug level.
> 
> But csync2 still uses stderr (or even stdout!) directly in some cases.
> This optional "debug" logging of csync2 is badly grown
> $swearword_of_choice; actually fixing that might take some time.

Thank you, Lars, that workaround did it!

Just in case you may need it, here is a full log of one of my previous 
failed sync attempts: http://pastebin.com/3Vy00P5J

With best regards,
Alex.