On 2022/09/17 04:12, Colton Lewis wrote:
> OpenBSD: 7.1
> Package: rsync-3.2.5pl0-iconv
> 
> When installing this earlier, I was confused why `rcctl start rsyncd` failed.
> Debug output revealed rsync complaining about a missing config file. Creating
> an empty config file at /etc/rsyncd.conf solved the problem.
> 
> While this is arguably an rsync bug and the daemon should act as if there is 
> an
> empty config when no config exists, I would expect the package to ship a 
> default
> configuration file at /etc/rsyncd.conf.

What are you expecting rsyncd to do with an empty config file?

We could come up with a sample file to include in the package (it would
need to be our own added file; upstream doesn't include one) but this is
not software that you can expect to work without telling it what to do.

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