Le mercredi 30 juillet 2008, Brandon Davidson a écrit :
rsync does not have any code to listen on a socket. The only way it has to communicate is using pipe with STDIN/STDOUT. Network connection are done either by ssh/rsh, either by (x)inetd.
Have you read the man page lately?
Rsync can also be run as a daemon, in which case the following
options are accepted:
--daemon run as an rsync daemon
True, last version can be run as standalone daemon. But this option mean nothing about this. --daemon were used for a long time just to specify it is launch from xinetd.