rsync daemon in CentOS 8

Apparently, the team behind the CentOS 8 decided to split the rsync functionality to two packages – one for the client-side and for the server-side, despite the binary rsync is only one and offers the client-size and server-side.

So there two packages in CentOS 8:

• 1. rsync – provides the client-side and server-side as usual

  2. rsync-daemon – provides configuration example file and the systemd to start it as a service.

side up and running.

Just create yourself the configuration “/etc/rsyncd.conf” file.

Install the rsync program – the client and the daemon

Install the configuration and systemd files

rsync and rsync-daemon files

The files included in the two packages: