<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space;" class="">Is it possible to use variables in the csync2 configuration file. <div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I want to synchronize files in a user’s home directory.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Example configuration below. I want to run this as root so as to not have a configuration/db for every user.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">group home_dir_files {</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>host rnd11 (rnd10);</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>key /etc/csync-group.key</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>include /home/$USER/cluster_configuration_file.txt</font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class=""><br class=""></font></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">}</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">So as user, myuser, I would run</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><font face="Courier" class="">sudo /usr/sbin/csync2 -xvG home_dir_files</font></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">This is not working for me. Should it work? For now, I’ve created a group for each user since I only have two users right now. Obviously, this alternative is not a scalable solution.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class=""><br class=""></div></body></html>