Hi All, this is the first time I post message here. Nice to meet you all first!!

I got a problem on configuring Rsync on my CentOS server. The rsync could not execute on startup and I found the port is not open by netstat -nr |grep ":873" unless I execute rsync --daemon manually. Might I seek for all your suggestion? Here is the configuration files:

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# cat /etc/xinetd.d/rsync
service rsync
{
disable = no
socket_type　　= stream
wait　　　　　 = no
user　　　　　 = root
server　　　　 = /usr/bin/rsync
server_args　　= --daemon
log_on_failure += USERID
}
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#cat /etc/rsyncd.conf
log file = /var/log/rsync.log
pid file = /var/run/rsyncd.pid
lock file = /var/run/rsync.lock

secrets file = /etc/rsyncd.secrets
motd file = /etc/rsyncd.motd
read only = yes
list = yes
uid = nobody
gid = nobody

[backup]
comment = Folder on server01
path = /home/backup
auth users =
hosts allow = 192.168.0.0/24
hosts deny = *.microsoft.com
list = false

thank you very much!

Is xinetd started ?

Hi linosaurusroot, thank you for your reply.

Yes. I ran systemctl restart xinetd already. Besides, it is confirmed rsync is ON when run chkconfig --list |grep "rsync"

Thank you!