I tried csync2 again tonight for simpler stuff than what I would use puppet for. Seems like there is a big bug with csync2 and ssl:
http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=501289
I'm just not using ssl for now:
nossl * *; group serverfarm{...}
Hopefully it gets fixed soon!
I had gotten it to work last year as described here: http://www.docunext.com/2008/03/csync2-on-debian.html
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