Monitor rsync daemon?

I would second that capability.
The current logging is not robust enough for our needs.
Truncated log files are a not acceptable.
A check box for summary vs detailed would be nice for those who don't want the whole thing.

CLI is fine with me, but of course a GUI version would be really great.

Just found this, rsyncd has a monitor switch:
http://linux-ha.org/doc/man-pages/re-ra-rsyncd.html

No help?

Let me rephrase.
I there a way to "connect" to an active rsync process and display what it's doing right now? Similar to -v (or -vv) on non daemon rsync commands.

Found these methods:

You can do: strace -e open $(ps -o lwp= -LC rsync | sed 's/^/-p/') To see what it's doing, or lsof -ad3-999 -c rsync to see what files it currently has opened.

Source: Monitor/Watch running rsync process

More here: View stdout for another pts

But strace and lsof are dependable up on libc6 >= 2.6, so they will not install with apt-get.

If you look at the (truly hideous Perl code) /frontview/bin/backup then you can modify the command that's being executed. I would suggest teeing to a temporary log file.

abickerton wrote:
If you look at the (truly hideous Perl code) /frontview/bin/backup then you can modify the command that's being executed. I would suggest teeing to a temporary log file.

Thanks abickerton! I've missed that one.

/frontview/bin/backup

That file might need further scrutiny.