rsyncd with macports 2.5.4 on macOS 10.13.6

[Rainer Müller]

On 2018-10-24 16:51, Kevin Layer wrote:
> When I installed rsync, I executed the command that was suggested by
> the port command.  I forget what it was.

Probably that was the usual 'sudo port load rsync'.

> After a reboot, every 30 seconds, I see this in /var/log/system.log:
> 
> com.apple.xpc.launchd[1] (org.macports.rsyncd[1044]): Service exited with abnormal code: 2

That means the rsyncd process exited with an error. You need to look at
the error messages to find out why.

Try this command to capture the output:
sudo launchctl debug system/org.macports.rsync --stdout --stderr

Rainer