/etc/rsyncd.conf This is a simple download-only configuration. See the rsyncd man-page for additional options (i.e. user authentification). cat > /etc/rsyncd.conf << "EOF" # This is a basic rsync configuration file # It exports a single module without user authentification. motd file = /home/rsync/welcome.msg use chroot = yes [localhost] path = /home/rsync comment = Default rsync module read only = yes list = yes uid = rsyncd gid = rsyncd EOF Note that you only want to start the rsync server if you want to provide a rsync archive on your machine. The rsync client doesn't need this script to be used. Having said that, if you want to run the rsync daemon, the rsyncd init.d script can be created using the following commands: cat > /etc/rc.d/init.d/rsyncd << "EOF" #!/bin/sh # Begin $rc_base/init.d/rsyncd # Based on sysklogd script from LFS-3.1 and earlier. # Rewritten by Gerard Beekmans - gerard@linuxfromscratch.org source /etc/sysconfig/rc source $rc_functions case "$1" in start) echo "Starting RSYNC Server..." loadproc /usr/bin/rsync --daemon --compress ;; stop) echo "Stopping RSYNC Server..." killproc /usr/bin/rsync ;; reload) echo "Reloading RSYNC Server..." reloadproc /usr/bin/rsync ;; restart) $0 stop sleep 1 $0 start ;; status) statusproc /usr/bin/rsync ;; *) echo "Usage: $0 {start|stop|reload|restart|status}" exit 1 ;; esac # End $rc_base/init.d/rsyncd EOF chmod 755 /etc/rc.d/init.d/rsyncd Create the symbolic links to this file in the relevant rc.d directories with the following commands: cd /etc/rc.d/init.d && ln -sf ../init.d/rsyncd ../rc0.d/K30rsyncd && ln -sf ../init.d/rsyncd ../rc1.d/K30rsyncd && ln -sf ../init.d/rsyncd ../rc2.d/K30rsyncd && ln -sf ../init.d/rsyncd ../rc3.d/S30rsyncd && ln -sf ../init.d/rsyncd ../rc4.d/S30rsyncd && ln -sf ../init.d/rsyncd ../rc5.d/S30rsyncd && ln -sf ../init.d/rsyncd ../rc6.d/K30rsyncd