libtiff files rsync from upload.osgeo.org no longer works

[rouault]

Reported by Bob Friesenhahn in ​https://gitlab.com/libtiff/libtiff/-/issues/598:

For the past two days, upload.osgeo.org no longer responds properly to anonymous rsync requests at
'rsync://upload.osgeo.org/download/libtiff/', which corresponds to TCP port 873.
Rsync is useful for sites which want to automatically mirror the
libtiff distribution and test files, with a minimum of overhead.
I have enough access to the server to verify that the rsync configuration (/etc/rsyncd.conf) is still present and that rsync should be
started via a legacy init script (/etc/init.d/rsync).
I am able to test rsync using its script and it does report a problem for the past two days:

bfriesen@download:/etc/init.d$ /etc/init.d/rsync status
● rsync.service - fast remote file copy program daemon
     Loaded: loaded (/lib/systemd/system/rsync.service; enabled; vendor preset: enabled)
     Active: failed (Result: signal) since Mon 2023-07-24 00:52:22 UTC; 2 days ago
       Docs: man:rsync(1)
             man:rsyncd.conf(5)
    Process: 99 ExecStart=/usr/bin/rsync --daemon --no-detach (code=killed, signal=KILL)
   Main PID: 99 (code=killed, signal=KILL)

Warning: some journal files were not opened due to insufficient permissions.bfriesen@download:/etc/init.d

A system administrator is needed to investigate and fix this issue. Perhaps there might be other server issues as well since this service has been working for many years.

Steps to reproduce

rsync -rlptv --delete rsync://upload.osgeo.org/download/libtiff/ ./mydir/libtiff

[robe]

Not sure what happened. i might have accidentally killed the process when I was troubleshooting backup on the host.

I've rebooted download container and seems to be working now.

Can you give it a try again. Feel free to reopen if still an issue.